L’endroit à perquisitionner doit apparaître avec autant de précision sur le mandat

R. v. Nickason and Lothrop, 2004 BCPC 316 (CanLII)

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[11]      It must be remembered that the rationale for requiring specificity of location on the face of a warrant is to avoid warrants becoming an instrument of abuse: Re McAvoy (1971), 12 CRNS 56 (NWT Terr. Ct.). The best way to protect that principle is to ensure that any person who is authorized to execute the warrant should, by looking at the warrant itself, be able to obtain a reasonably precise conception of the place which is to be searched. The warrant in this case plainly does not meet that test. I agree with the Defendants that this warrant is so seriously defective concerning the description of the place to be searched that it is void.