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Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..

Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..

Panel :: Panel (n.) A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury..

Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..

Call :: Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.

Ban :: Ban (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation..

Convene :: Convene (v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.

Tales :: Tales (syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.

Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.

Somonce :: Somonce (n.) A summons; a citation.

Muster :: Muster (v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.

Council :: Council (n.) An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case..

Monition :: Monition (n.) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

Call :: Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

Vouch :: Vouch (v. t.) To call; to summon.

Minaret :: Minaret (n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin..

Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons..

Conjuration :: Conjuration (n.) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration..

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