icularly, a writ or precept issued by a magistrate, justice, or other competent authority, addressed to a sheriff, constable, or other officer, requiring him to arrest the body of a person therein named, and bring him before the magistrate or court, to an-swer, or to be examined, touching some of-fense which he is charged with having com-mitted. See, also, Bench-wass ant; Search-WABRANT
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
