rann-sókn

f, as a law term, ransacking a house for stolen things or the like, for a description of which see N. G. L. i. 83, 84, 255, in Grág. ii. 188–195 called rannsókna-þáttr, as also Rd. ch. 2, 18, Njarð. 376: metaph. a search, enquiry, passim in mod. usage.