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.
take the fall. Incur blame or censure for another's misdeeds, as in She's taken the fall for you in terms of any political damage, or A senior official took the fall for the failed intelligence operation. This expression originated in the 1920s as underworld slang.