General warrants gave permission for the king’s agent to enter private property and seize things or people without limiting where the king's agent was allowed to search, what property he was allowed to seize, or who he could arrest. Although there were some preventative actions in early English common law which suggested restrictions on the limits of warrants and the situations in which they could be issued, certain events, specifically political during the eighteenth-century, cause the release of multiple of general warrants to be issued in politically charged cases. This caused a domino effect of very broad searches to civil trespass suits and eventually led to a number of judicial reviews that finished with the enactment of the Fourth
General warrants gave permission for the king’s agent to enter private property and seize things or people without limiting where the king's agent was allowed to search, what property he was allowed to seize, or who he could arrest. Although there were some preventative actions in early English common law which suggested restrictions on the limits of warrants and the situations in which they could be issued, certain events, specifically political during the eighteenth-century, cause the release of multiple of general warrants to be issued in politically charged cases. This caused a domino effect of very broad searches to civil trespass suits and eventually led to a number of judicial reviews that finished with the enactment of the Fourth