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

Convocation :: Convocation (n.) The act of calling or assembling by summons.

Summons :: Summons (v.) A demand to surrender.

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

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

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..

Summonses :: Summoner (v. t.) One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..

Sumner :: Summons (v. t.) To summon.

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy..

Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na..

Call :: Call (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call..

Writ :: Writ (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like..

Resummons :: Resummons (n.) A second summons.

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

Summons :: Summonses (pl. ) of Summon.

Calling :: Calling (n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called..

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.

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

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