In
United States
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legal usage, a possessory warrant is a process resembling a
search warrant used in criminal proceedings, but differing in that it is a
civil process under which the property is to be delivered to the person from whom it was violently or
fraud
In law, fraud is intent (law), intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly. Fraud can violate Civil law (common law), civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrato ...
ulently taken or enticed away or in whose peaceable and lawful possession it last was.
[''Roberts v. Macaulay'', 232 Ga. 660, 660-61 (1974)]
See also
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Warrant of delivery
References
Law of the United States
Warrants
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