Similar words: consummate, summer, summit, summary, midsummer, summation, in common, commonly. Meaning: ['sʌmənz] 
n. 1. a request to be present 2. an order to appear in person at a given place and time 3. a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant. v. call in an official matter, such as to attend court.
n. 1. a request to be present 2. an order to appear in person at a given place and time 3. a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant. v. call in an official matter, such as to attend court. 
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61 The court then issues the summons and serves it on your debtor, usually by post.
62 All these orders are made after an application by summons or notice, giving the defendant an opportunity to be heard.
63 The summons requires the person to attend the court to explain to the magistrate why the sum has not been paid.
64 It is still necessary to issue a summons for directions in an admiralty or medical negligence case.
65 In answer to Grant's summons, Larsen had turned up accompanied by ten well muscled companions.
66 It will include other forms of civil proceedings: for example, an originating summons.Sentencedict.com
67 The nominee summons the meeting, giving notice to every creditor.
68 The message in the books conveyed both a revolutionary and a prophetic summons.
69 Summary trial covers the less serious offences and is commenced by the laying of information and a summons.
70 The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes.
71 And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. James Joyce 
72 Now, he has received another summons, claiming ￡89.90 is owed.
73 Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons.
74 The plaintiffs issued an originating summons for account of the moneys owed and redemption on payment of those sums.
75 A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers, which he refused to attend.
76 It was a vexatious summons, and none of them turned up.
77 All three addressees sought by originating summons the determination of the court on whether they were bound to provide the information sought.
78 The court will automatically serve the defendant by post following receipt of the request for a summons unless the plaintiff otherwise requests.
79 Then I received a final notice and now a summons.
80 To start that procedure, the authority applies to a magistrates court for a summons.
81 Meanwhile they're waiting for another summons to pop through their door.
82 The summons was heard in chambers but judgment was given in open court at the request of the parties.
83 We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance.
84 Dunn should then have returned his reply to the court that issued the summons.
85 Frequently Sereny is in inner dialogue with Speer or summons him as witness.
86 Before long he would hear the sirens of approaching police cars come at my summons to arrest him for being off limits.
87 But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance, and sent him a second summons to appear the following week.
88 The rest of them kept their eyes fastened on the duke, waiting to see what lay behind his summons.
89 When the summons came from the Palace, she took care to dress neither as a lady of pleasure nor a noblewoman.
90 Not to answer the summons made matters worse, as it had always done, and particularly if it concerned a mortgage.
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