warrant

1. a document that certifies or guarantees, such as a receipt for goods stored in a warehouse, a licence, or a commission

2. Law an authorization issued by a magistrate or other official allowing a constable or other officer to search or seize property, arrest a person, or perform some other specified act

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warrant

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Warrant

in the civil law of a number of states (France, Great Britain, the USA, Japan, and others), a document that is issued to the owner of goods when he places them in storage. Usually the warrant consists of two parts—a warehouse certificate and the warrant itself. It is a kind of security, since the owner of the goods may sell the warrant or use it as a pledge. He may also transfer the warrant by means of endorsement.

REFERENCE

Grazhdanskoe i torgovoe pravo kapitalisticheskikh gosudarstv. Moscow, 1966. Pages 324-35.

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Also, this grant of warrants shall ensure to create, both in the short and in the long run, common interests between board members and the employees and the shareholders of the company.

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Each special warrant entitles for the purchase, upon deemed exercise and for no additional consideration, of one unit bundling one common share in the company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant.

-Raymond James, Cormark Securities lead Batero Gold's special warrant financing