arrest warrant

English

Alternative forms

• warrant of arrest

Noun

arrest warrant (plural arrest warrants)

1. (law) An official document that authorizes law-enforcement officials to arrest a named person and to bring that individual before a court of law or other authority.

Synonyms

• capias

Translations

document authorizing an arrest

• Catalan: crida i cerca (ca) f, ordre d'arrest f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逮捕證 (zh), 逮捕证 (zh) (dàibǔzhèng), 拘捕令 (jūbǔlìng)

• Czech: zatykač (cs) m
• Danish: arrestordre c
• Dutch: arrestatiebevel (nl) n, aanhoudingsbevel (nl) n
• Finnish: pidätysmääräys
• French: mandat d'arrêt (fr) m
• German: Haftbefehl (de) m
• Greek: ένταλμα σύλληψης n (éntalma sýllipsis)

• Hungarian: letartóztatási parancs (hu), elfogatóparancs (hu)
• Italian: mandato di arresto m
• Japanese: 逮捕状 (たいほじょう, taihojō)
• Polish: list gończy m, nakaz aresztowania m
• Portuguese: mandado de prisão m
• Russian: о́рдер на аре́ст m (órder na arést)
• Serbo-Croatian: nalog za uhićenje (sh) m
• Spanish: orden de arresto f
• Swedish: häktningsbeslut n, häktningsorder c, arresteringsorder c
• Tagalog: utos ng pagdakip, utos sa pagdakip, mandamiento de arresto
• Thai: หมายจับ (mǎai-jàp)