It wouldn't work. The vampire needs the permission of the owner to enter the house. The person who issued the warrant is not the owner of the house.
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Law enforcement doesn’t seem like a very advantageous career for a vampire…
It's one of the few careers that still offers a pension.a few decades of being a cop, which is nothing to a vampire, and you get a nice chunk of change monthly.
Spend a century as a cop, do 25 years for 4 different departments, collect 4 pensions. Seems like a pretty good plan for a young vampire to pull.
Gotta work the night shift only, and need to never get forced to work a double, or give out a ticket/arrest anyone, as you'll end up in court (which is during the day).
Tell that to Blade
I rent so I don't own my house.
Does this mean i can be an absolute dick and invite them in anyway knowing they won't be able to enter. Could I literally stand at door and mock them. "Can the big bad vampire not enter, aww, what a shame."
it’s magic not a legal clause….
the people living there, not legal owners
So if I have squaters they could invite vampires? 😱 Like if I have a house guest refusing to pack up and leave
there's probably some primordial vampire or anti-vampire god going through each case one by one and either letting the vampire come in or not, and it all happens in an instant. i imagine the results would change with the political ideology of said god.
but it is common practice for guests to invite more guests, so if the god uses precedent to decide future cases you may have to ensure to never have guests again.
So be a dick and get eaten then :(
What if the city declares eminent domain? Also, how does ownership work with apartments? Can a landlord grant a vampire carte blanche entry?
Edited to add another question: A vampire enters a centuries-long slumber and during that time, they are declared dead and the castle is torn down. Then, a nightclub is built on top of the vampire's basement, which wakes them up. Can the vampire enter the night club from the basement without getting permission?
And, if you built a house from the stones that were the vampire's castle, does the vampire's ownership of its stolen property remain with the vampire, allowing them to enter the house you built and bought?
Eminent Domain can't be declared by some random police officer, it's a complex process that takes years and it needs a specific valid public purpose. Some countries require the government to publish a declaration that specifies what public utility the project that will be built on that land will bring.
Also if eminent domain goes through then you stop being the owner of the house and the state owns it now. You also most likely won't be allowed to live there anymore.
As for the nightclub, it's not a house, it's a night club. Vampires can't enter houses without permission but nothing is mentioned about other types of buildings so I assume they can enter those.
Ownership doesn't transfer through building materials otherwise the local brick kiln owns all the houses in my city.
Hey, you can't discredit my question with facts!
Now answer the second part!
There were a Terry pratchett book where the king gave permission to come, so the invitation was like for the whole kingdom. But IIRC houses were still excluded.
Carpe Jugulum, great book!
Ah yes thank you!
It doesn't have to be the owner, Just anybody who's already inside the property needs to let them in.
So if they had a human as a partner who could go in first and then let them in, then they have nothing to worry about
Some traditions also hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless invited by the owner; after the first invitation they can come and go as they please.
Depends who you ask.
What if you have a mortgage and they call up the bank?
When you have a mortgage you still are the owner of the house. You just owe the bank money and the house is just a collateral for that money. If you default on your loan then the bank can take possession of the house to cover the loan and then would become the owners, but only in that case.
Just when you thought your life couldn't get any worse after receiving that eviction notice
Now hold on. The man's house does not exist in a vaccume but within a state and the owner who owns it only does so at the pleasure of that state. In a sense the owner is maybe the one most directly in control over who can and can't come in but he does not have final say. That comes from the states monopoly on violence able to will themselves into houses under their jurisdiction given the right legal work.
You might say no, in which case is the owner of the house the only one able to invite a vampire in? No other person with access or implied authority can? No roommate, child, house guest? I think we can all agree that the vampire would be able to enter with those peoples permissions and I would argue the state has more actual authority to pick and choose who can enter the house than any of the examples.
This vampire cop is truly unstoppable.
A warrant enables you to enter without the inhabitant's permission, a vampire needs said permission to enter. There's no reason to believe this would work unless the vampire informs the inhabitant about the warrant and then hides the permission thing behind phrasing like "So, can I come in or do I need to call the cavalry?".
You definitely bring it to the point here. "Can/Could" has two different meanings in this case (and many more generally).
Nobody can legally enter your house without permission. Vampires also additionally have a second restriction, they cannot physically enter your house without permission. A warrant removes the first restriction but not the second. A vampire policeman with a warrant can legally enter, but still not physically.
I reckon that depends on you. If you then invite them in because they have the warrant then yes, but if you decline they wouldn’t be able to force entry.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say that a warrant is the same as an invite. Legally it allows them to enter, but I’m not convinced that the laws of magic bend to the laws of man.
It's a invite by the state ,who truely in all practical terms owns the house, to enter the house. They have the authority higher than that of the owner and are able to overrule them in decisions pertaining to access to the house.
Could a vampire enter my house in a communist society?
Personal property is not private property. Your house is not the means of production.
Your house is not the means of production
No, that would be the lab equipment inside my house and the chemicals under the sink.
As transylvania is part of Romaina I would assume you would need to apply the Ceaușescu brand of communism.
You can only invite the vampire in if you're inside the house. If the judge signed the warrant while inside the house for some reason, the vampire could enter. But in the usual case where they were anywhere else, it wouldn't count.
I suspect that for people who spend a large amount of time in the house, the quality of "inside-ness" rubs off on them: you can probably text your vampire friend the location of your spare key and ask them to check on your cat, even if you're not there. But someone who has never been inside can't reasonably offer an "invitation."
Yes, but only on the night of the full moon during business hours.
This reminded me of an old vampire-cop tv series called Forever Knight.
Vampire fireman wouldn't be able to enter a house if it was on fire, why would police be different
doesn't matter, they can shoot into your house even if they don't have a warrant so they're getting your blood one way or another
Can a vampire enter apartments if its admitted to the building? How about row homes?
It hinges on if the vampire is allowed to be invited in by anyone (like the black plague was) or only by the owner of the house.