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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..

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

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

Summons :: Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like..

Convoke :: Convoke (v. t.) To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.

Summons :: Summons (v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty..

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

Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting..

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..

Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..

Cital :: Cital (n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge..

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.

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) A summons to answer to a charge.

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

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

Summons :: Summonses (pl. ) of Summon.

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

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..

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..

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