Opinion ID: 1937450
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Heading: writ of assistance

Text: Stedmans argued that the particularized writ of assistance issued by the trial court directing the Sheriff to enforce the eviction judgment was unconstitutional. Stedmans cited only the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures except upon warrants issued by a judge and based upon probable cause. Stedmans have confused this particularized and specific writ of assistance for possession of the farm ( see 6 Am.Jur.2d Assistance, Writs of, §§ 2 and 3) with the generalized and unspecific writs of assistance which were used for searches in colonial days and which were outlawed by the Fourth Amendment ( see Stanford v. Texas, 379 U.S. 476, 481, 85 S.Ct. 506, 509-10, 13 L.Ed.2d 431 (1965)). This argument is without merit.