A writ of assistance is a written order (a writ) issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform...

supporter of patriotic causes in Massachusetts Bay Colony at the beginning of the Revolutionary Era. Otis was a fervent opponent of the writs of assistance imposed...

erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760, when the news of King George II's death on October 23 arrived in Boston. All writs automatically...

of parliament, [...] it is lawful for any officer of his Majesty's customs, authorized by writ of assistance under the seal of his Majesty's court of...

computer Writ of assistance, a written order issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official to perform a certain task American Student Assistance, a...

writ of assistance and Boston merchants challenged its legality. In the case the lawyer for the merchants James Otis argued that writs of assistance violated...

warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate...

that the agents lacked a writ of assistance (a general search warrant), he did not allow them to go below deck. When one of them later managed to get...

"friendly offers of foreign assistance" to suppress the rebellion without pitting Briton against Briton. A pro-American minority of members within Parliament...

In 1761 Hutchinson brought upon himself a storm of protest and criticism by issuing writs of assistance, documents that authorized essentially arbitrary...

probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution....

look inside a property Search and seizure Sugar bowl (legal maxim) Writ of Assistance "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995". legislation.gov.uk. National...

A writ of coram nobis (also writ of error coram nobis, writ of coram vobis, or writ of error coram vobis) is a legal order allowing a court to correct...

applicable to any federal crime, including misdemeanors. Arrest warrant Writ of Assistance National Security Letter "Sneak And Peek Search Warrant Law and Legal...

as a lawyer and especially his reports of the legal arguments presented by James Otis in the Writ of assistance case and their importance in the build-up...

and his 1761 prosecution of the Paxton's case, contesting Britain's use of writs of assistance to conduct warrantless searches of the colonists' property...

a creditor who refuses to acquit him after a debt is paid. Writ of assistance issues out of the exchequer to authorise any person to take a constable to...

the voiding of both the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence; after the establishment of the United States...

Officers may take samples of certain goods, enter premises with a writ of assistance or search warrant and stop and search vehicles or vessels where there...

John W. McGinn obtained a writ of assistance from the Circuit Court of Cheboygan in 1898. In October 1900, he used the writ to demand that Sheriff Fred...

better reaction. During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and the 1765 Stamp Act, Bonham's Case was used as a justification...

early habit of diary writing; this included his impressions of James Otis Jr.'s 1761 challenge to the legality of British writs of assistance, which allowed...

All Writs Act is a United States federal statute, codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1651, which authorizes the United States federal courts to "issue all writs necessary...

Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Japanese: 大政翼贊會/大政翼賛会, Hepburn: Taisei Yokusankai), or Imperial Aid Association, was the Empire of Japan's ruling...

1761 – February: Writs of Assistance challenged in Massachusetts. December: Ban on colonial land grants. 1763 – February: Treaty of Paris ends the French...

taxes imposed from and were attempted to be collected utilizing writs of assistance, the Stamp Act was passed, and duties upon paper, painters' colors...

Tory Act of 1776 was penned as seven resolutions passed by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1776. The legislative...

search warrants (Writs of Assistance). In 1761, Boston lawyer James Otis argued that the writs violated the constitutional rights of the colonists. He...

public appearance of Mother Goose stories in the New World was in 1786) Jeremiah Gridley (1702–1767), lawyer, defender of writs of assistance in 1761 John...

and Autumn Reader there in 1537. From 1539 he was the recipient of a writ of assistance to attend the Lords – the first Solicitor General to be called...