perquisition

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The Council in its turn, striving to guarantee individual liberty, decreed that every arrest should be immediately notified to the delegate of Justice, and that no perquisition should be made without a regular warrant.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Which has occasioned Collins and myself to institute a perquisition whether the French ever have shown any kind of idea of the supernatural; and to decide this rather in the negative.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

When the Commissaries, wearing tricolour ribands at their necks, arrived to carry out their perquisition, they found scarcely anything but such trifles as it had been deemed judicious to let them discover.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie

To this remarkable stick, I refer an air of mystery and magic which pervaded the whole of my perquisition among the traps that were set for Jack.

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

"Colbert, did you make a perquisition on the house of M. Fouquet?"

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre