A Wikipedia article on Entick v Carrington (1765), the English Court of Common Pleas decision holding that state agents who searched a private home and seized papers under a general warrant committed an unlawful trespass because no statute or precedent authorized the search, a foundational statement of the rule that executive power is bounded by law.
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