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To: metesky; all
Administrative warrants can be issued to search private property if the search is consistent with a valid administrative scheme, such as housing safety - probable cause is not required.

Ta-dah! More warnings not heeded! It'll pass too.

21 posted on 06/03/2002 6:55:12 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36
I'm especially fond of the word scheme:

scheme

PRONUNCIATION: skm
NOUN: 1. A systematic plan of action: “Did you ever carry out your scheme of writing a series of sonnets embodying all the great epochs of art?” (Edith Wharton, That Good May Come 1894). 2. A secret or devious plan; a plot. See synonyms at plan. 3. An orderly combination of related parts: an irrigation scheme with dams, reservoirs, and channels. 4. A chart, diagram, or outline of a system or object.
VERB: Inflected forms: schemed, schem·ing, schemes

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To plot: scheming their revenge. 2. To contrive a plan or scheme for.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To make plans, especially secret or devious ones.
ETYMOLOGY: Latin schma, figure, from Greek skhma. See segh- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS: schemer —NOUN

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

23 posted on 06/03/2002 7:27:55 AM PDT by metesky
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