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  • English Word Warrandice Definition The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.
  • English Word Warrant Definition That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
  • English Word Warrant Definition A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
  • English Word Warrant Definition A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
  • English Word Warrant Definition An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
  • English Word Warrant Definition That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
  • English Word Warrant Definition That which attests or proves; a voucher.
  • English Word Warrant Definition Right; legality; allowance.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
  • English Word Warrant Definition To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.
  • English Word Warrantable Definition Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.
  • English Word Warranted Definition of Warrant
  • English Word Warrantee Definition The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.
  • English Word Warranter Definition One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.
  • English Word Warranter Definition One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse.
  • English Word Warranties Definition of Warranty
  • English Word Warranting Definition of Warrant
  • English Word Warrantise Definition Authority; security; warranty.
  • English Word Warrantise Definition To warrant.
  • English Word Warrantor Definition One who warrants.
  • English Word Warranty Definition A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
  • English Word Warranty Definition An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.
  • English Word Warranty Definition A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
  • English Word Warranty Definition Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.
  • English Word Warranty Definition Security; warrant; guaranty.