A warrant is a legal document issued by a judge or other judicial officer (such as a magistrate) that authorizes a law enforcement officer to perform an act related to justice administrationâtypically to: 1  Search and seize a person's property. 2  Arrest someone. 3  Bring a person before the court.
incur. 1  to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts. 2  to become liable or subject to through one's own action; bring or take upon oneself: to incur his displeasure.
to come into or acquire (something undesirable): to incur a debt; to become subject to through one's own action; bring upon oneself: to incur someone's wrath; Origin of incur. Middle English incurren from Classical Latin incurrere, to run into or toward, attack from in-, in, toward + currere, to run: see current