Writ of Assistance

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No references found	A typical 1761 Boston writ of assistance, for example, authorized entry into any "House Shop Cellar Warehouse or Room or other place"--in short any location at all--"suspected" of containing goods on which custom duties had not been paid; the holder of the writ (along with all whom he selected to give him "assistance") was empowered "to break doors chests trunks & other package" in order to discover such goods. The end of privacy by Rubenfeld, Jed / Stanford Law Review The City, after bringing an unsuccessful 1989 squatter proceeding and after unsuccessfully seeking a writ of assistance from the Supreme Court in 1990, had allowed the occupants to remain for an indefinite term. 'Squatters' Entitled to 30-Day Notice From City by Real Estate Weekly In fact, Otis's forceful speech became one of the most famous legal arguments in the annals of American law: I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me all such instruments of slavery, on the one hand, and villainy, on the other, as this writ of assistance is. In defense of the exclusionary rule by Lynch, Timothy / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy	Wrinkles wrinklies wrinkly wrist wrist band wrist bone Wrist clonus Wrist drop wrist joint wrist loop wrist pad wrist pin Wrist plate wrist shot wrist watch wrist-drop wristband Wrister wristlet wristlock wristwatch wristy writ writ large Writ of account Writ of Assistance Writ of Ayle writ of certiorari Writ of consultation writ of detinue writ of election Writ of entry writ of error writ of execution writ of habeas corpus Writ of inquiry writ of mandamus Writ of possession Writ of privilege writ of prohibition Writ of protection Writ of recaption writ of right writ of summons Writ of tresayle Writability writable Writative write write about write away	wrists wristwatch wristwatch wristwatch wristwatch Wristwatches Wristwatches Wristwatches Wristwatches wristy writ writ writ writ writ writ Writ de Writ de bono et malo Writ de ejectione firmae Writ de haeretico comburendo Writ de homine relegiando Writ de odio et atia writ for deliverance from illegal confinement writ large writ large writ large writ large writ large Writ of Writ of account Writ of Assistance Writ of attachment Writ of attachment Writ of attainder Writ of attainder Writ of attaint Writ of attaint Writ of Ayle Writ of cert Writ of cert Writ of cert Writ of cert writ of certiorari writ of certiorari writ of certiorari writ of certiorari writ of certiorari Writ of conspiracy Writ of consultation Writ of coram nobis Writ of covenants Writ of debt Writ of deceit writ of detinue writ of detinue Writ of dower Writ of ejectment Writ of ejectment writ of election Writ of entry Writ of entry

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A typical 1761 Boston writ of assistance, for example, authorized entry into any "House Shop Cellar Warehouse or Room or other place"--in short any location at all--"suspected" of containing goods on which custom duties had not been paid; the holder of the writ (along with all whom he selected to give him "assistance") was empowered "to break doors chests trunks & other package" in order to discover such goods.

The end of privacy by Rubenfeld, Jed / Stanford Law Review

The City, after bringing an unsuccessful 1989 squatter proceeding and after unsuccessfully seeking a writ of assistance from the Supreme Court in 1990, had allowed the occupants to remain for an indefinite term.

'Squatters' Entitled to 30-Day Notice From City by Real Estate Weekly

In fact, Otis's forceful speech became one of the most famous legal arguments in the annals of American law: I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me all such instruments of slavery, on the one hand, and villainy, on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

In defense of the exclusionary rule by Lynch, Timothy / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

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