WARRANT

In Law, a precept under hand and seal directed to a proper officer, to arrest an offender. WARRANT OF ATTORNEY, in Law, is a power given by a client to his attorney to appear and plead for him, or to sutler judgment to pa against him by confe ion. It authorizes a creditor to enler up judgment and levy execution, cither instantly, or within a certain time specified iu the instrument. WARRANT OFFICERS, in the Navy, are the gunner, boatswain, and carpenter. WARRANTY, in Law, as applied to lands, is a promise or covenant real annexed to lands or hereditaments, whereby the bargain or and his heirs are bound to warrant the same to the bargainee and his heirs against all men. But the ancient law of warranty of real property has been long obsolete in practice. With regard to warranty of things personal, it is the gene ral rule, that a purchaser of goods and chattels may have a satisfaction from the seller, If he sells them as his own, and the title proves deficient, without any expre warranty for that purpose; but that with regard to the goodne of the things so purchased, the vendor is not bound to answer, un le he has expre ly warranted them to be good, or unle he has in any way misrepresented them. [s. 1339]