Key
Key noun - An explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart.
Warrant
Warrant noun - The approval by someone in authority for the doing of something.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Secondly, they don't need a warrant, because Jenny Summers, who is with them, is the manager of Maitland's legitimate business interests and has a key to the warehouse, which she uses to admit them; this would make the search consensual.
Source: Hollywood Law - Adam-12 and Dragnet: Both Jack Webb-produced series featured Courtroom Episodes where suspects had charges dropped on various technicalities key witnesses fail to show, obtaining evidence without a search warrant... the list goes on.
Source: Off on a Technicality -
Reasonable Authority Figure: Both Clarkie and Lestrade continue to trust Holmes after a warrant is issued for his arrest; Clarkie makes sure he escapes the police at the slaughterhouse, and Lestrade slips him the key to his handcuffs.
Source: Film / Sherlock Holmes
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