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Definition of Summoners
1. summoner [n] - See also: summoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summoners
Literary usage of Summoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"These persons are expressly mentioned in original writs ; the sheriff being
directed to summon the defendant " by good summoners." It was necessary that ..."
2. A Translation of Glanville by Ranulf de Glanville, John Beames (1812)
"... and, unless he does so, summon "•him by good summoners, that he be there, ...
wherefore he has failed; and have there the " summoners and this Writ. ..."
3. A treatise on the law of actions relating to real property by Henry Roscoe (1825)
"If one of the summoners only appear, he ought to be immediately examined, (for
he may happen to die before the other summoners are brought into court), ..."
4. The Art of English Poetry: Containing by Edward Bysshe (1762)
"... dreadful summoners Grace. Shak, K. Lear. Rive your concealing Continents, and
cry. THANKS. . Words were not made to vent ..."
5. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, and on Pleading: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1837)
"Therefore, as before, the sheriff is like- other aim* summons of wise commanded
that he summon, by good summoners, four, &c. girt, ..."
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