general searches
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From 275 U.S. 192 - Marron v. United States · 1927Most cited · 2,887 citing opinions
The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another. As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant.