General Warrant
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A_ process which formerly issued from the state secretary’s office in England to take up (without naming any persons) the author, printer, and publisher of such obscene and seilitious libels as were specilied in it. It was declared illegal and void for uncertainty by a vote of the house of commons on the 22d April, 1766.
Wharton.