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Subpoena   /səpˈinə/   Listen
Subpoena

noun
(Written also subpena)
1.
A writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court.  Synonym: subpoena ad testificandum.



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"Subpoena" Quotes from Famous Books



... no desire to become embroiled in a dispute which might easily beget a subpoena. Still, because of his elevation to the Bench, he had not resigned the fellowship of Man, and, since he was the nearest individual to the blue taxi, he stepped to it quickly and ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... said Mr. Crow, darkly. "I'll need you as a witness. I hereby subpoena you as a witness to what's goin' to happen in less'n no time. Now, Mr. Otto Schultz, spit ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

... pressing form of invitation here, which people are not very apt to disregard. Did you ever hear of a subpoena, dear Mother?" ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... be no charge that outsiders had tampered with him. Stahl remained with the Government detectives on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday, although he was not under arrest. When he appeared yesterday before the Grand Jury it was under a subpoena. ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... "I'll bet everything I own Pendarvis never saw that order. They have stacks of those things, signed in blank, in the Chief of the Court's office. If they had to wait to get one of the judges to sign an order every time they wanted to subpoena a witness or impound physical evidence, they'd never get anything done. If Ham O'Brien didn't think this up for himself, Leslie Coombes thought ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper

... he writes, in his "Letters from India," "is a perfumer, and a liar to boot. Know that I have never seen anywhere such hideous witches as in Cashmere. The female race is remarkably ugly." Instead of adding to such conflicting evidence, I have endeavoured to subpoena a credible witness to speak for herself; and the right of private judgment being thus reserved to the reader, Gulabie will no doubt be charitably dealt with, and will find her proper position somewhere within the limits of a "hideous witch" ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight



Words linked to "Subpoena" :   writ, judicial writ, jurisprudence, process, serve, swear out, law



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