WAREHOUSEMAN. A warehouseman is a person who receives goods and merchandise to be stored in his warehouse¹ for hire.

2. He is bound to use ordinary care in preserving such goods and merchan-dise, and his neglect to do so will render him liable to the owner. Peake, R. 114; 1 Esp. R. 315; Story, Bailm. §444; Jones' Bailm. 49, 96, 97; 7 Cowen's R. 497; 12 John. Rep. 232; 2 Wend. R. 593; 9 Wend. R. 268; 1 Stew². Rep. 284. The warehouseman's liability commences as soon as the goods arrive, and the crane of the warehouse is applied³ to raise them into the warehouse. 4 Esp. R. 262.

WARRANDICE, Scotch⁴ law. A clause in a charter of heritable rights by which the grantor obliges himself, that the right conveyed shall be effectual to the receiver. It is either personal or real. A warranty⁵. Ersk. Pr. B. 2, t. 3, n. 11.

WARRANT, crim. law, Practice. A writ⁶ issued by a justice of the peace or other authorized⁷ officer, directed to a constable⁸ or other proper person, requiring him to arrest a person therein named, charged with committing some offence, and to bring him before that or some other justice of the peace.

2. It should regularly be made under the hand and seal of the justice and dated. No warrant ought to be issued except upon the oath or affirmation of a witness charging the defendant⁹ with, the offence. 3 Binn. Rep. 88.

3. The reprehensible¹⁰ practice of issuing blank warrants which once prevailed in England, was never adopted here. 2 Russ. on Cr. 512; Ld. Raym. 546; 1 Salk. 175; 1 H. Bl. R. 13; Doct. Pl. 529; Wood's Inst. 84; Com. Dig. Forcible Entry, D 18, 19; Id. Imprisonment¹¹, H 6,; Id. Pleader, 3 K 26; Id. Pleader, 3 M 23. Vide Search warrant.

4. A bench warrant is a process granted by a court authorizing¹² a proper officer to apprehend¹³ and bring before it some on charged with some contempt, crime or misdemeanor. See Bench warrant.

5. A search warrant is a process issued by a competent court or officer authorizing an officer therein named or described, to examine a house or other place for the purpose of finding goods which it is alleged¹⁴ have been stolen. See Search warrant.