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Definition of Subpena

1. n. & v. t. See Subpœna.

Definition of Subpena

1. Noun. (alternative form of subpoena) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative form of subpoena) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subpena

1. to subpoena [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: subpoena

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subpena

Literary usage of Subpena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of a Suit in Equity from Its Commencement to Its Final Termination by Charles Barton, James Philemon Holcombe, Francis Bacon (1877)
"The mode of serving a subpena in suits in the Supreme Court of the United ... The correct practice is to accompany the subpena with a notice to the parent, ..."

2. The Compiled Laws of Nevada in Force from 1861 to 1900 (inclusive): With by Nevada, Henry C. Cutting (1900)
"subpena for Attendance of Witness. JC 3483. SEC. 388. A subpena may require not only the attendance of the person to whom it is directed, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"123 US Callanan, by the service of the subpena, had due notice of the allegations and prayer of the bill. By the decree reciting and confirming his default, ..."

4. Digest of the Laws of California: Containing All Laws of a General Character by William H. R. Wood (1857)
"If a witness be concealed in a building or vessel, so as to prevent the sen-ice of a subpena upon him, any court or judge, or any officer issuing the ..."

5. Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster by Henry Fishwick (1896)
"... to Robert Smalley, Roger Smalley, William Smalley, and Christopher Smalley, to apper xva Michis-Archi subpena xl li Daf ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Charge for making copy subpenas (subpena tickets, one for each witness in a ... "In ordinary cases the common subpena ie sufficient process to compel the ..."

7. Treatise on the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace and by Charles W. Langdon (1870)
"The process by which the attendance of a witness before a court or magistrate is required is a subpena. 308. SEC. 548. A magistrate before whom an ..."

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