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Monition

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Monition, 1. Generally, a warning or caution; Admonition. 2. Civil & Maritime law. A summons to appear in court as a defendant or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022.

Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an ecclesiastical judge to a defendant to abstain from practices contrary to ecclesiastical law; see Dale's case, (1881) 7 QBD 376: 7 App Cas 240

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