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A family of North American Indian languages including Tlingit the Athabascan language family and Haida...
Subp'na
Subp'na [from sub, Lat., under, and p'na, penalty], a writ commanding attendance in court under a penalty. It bears a close analogy to the citation, or vocatio in jus of the Civil and Canon Laws. There are several kinds of subp'na.At Common Law there are two to compel the attendance of witnesses:-(1) Subp'na ad testificandum, the common subp'na, which is personally served upon a witness, in order to compel him to attend the trial or inquiry, to give evidence.(2) Subp'na duces tecum; this is personally served upona person, who has in his possession any written instrument, etc., the production of which in evidence is desired. Such a person need not be sworn, and in that case he cannot be cross-examined. Se DUCES TECUM.These subp'nas are also used in criminal proceedings; four witnesses can be included in one subp'na, whether in civil or criminal cases.For rules as to service, etc., of subp'na see (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., rr. 26-34, and for the different forms of subp'na, see ...
Duces tecum, subp'na
Duces tecum, subp'na (you shall bring with you under penalty). If a person, even if he be a party to a cause, have in his possession any written instrument, etc., which it is desired to put in evidence at the trial, instead of the common subp'na he is served with a subpoena duces tecum, commanding him to bring it with him and produce it at the trial. Upon being served with a copy of this subp'na, he must attend at the trial with the instrument required, and produce it in evidence, unless he has some lawful or reasonable excuse for withholding it, of the validity of which excuse the Court and not the witness is to judge. It is no excuse that the legal custody of the instrument belongs to another, if it be in the actual possession of the witness; but if it tend to criminate himself or his client (if the witness be a solicitor), or if it be his title-deed, the Court will not compel him to produce it.If the witness, instead of bringing the papers, etc., required, deliver them to the opposi...
Agentes et consentientes pari p'na plectentur
Agentes et consentientes pari p'na plectentur, 5 Rep. 80-(Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment.)...
Solvere p'nas
Solvere p'nas, to pay the penalty....
Subp'na Office in Chancery
Subp'na Office in Chancery. Abolished, and its duties transferred to Clerks of Records and Writs, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, s. 28....
nominate
nominate [Latin nominatus, past participle of nominare to call by name, from nomin- nomen name] in the civil law of Louisiana : having a special or certain name compare innominate [nÄ -mə-nāt] vt -nat·ed -nat·ing 1 : to appoint or propose for appointment to an office, position, or place [if the testator has nominated an executor of the will] [the President…shall and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors "U.S. Constitution art. II"] 2 : to propose as a candidate for election to office nom·i·na·tion [nÄ -mə-nā-shən] n ...
originate
originate -nat·ed -nat·ing vt : to give rise to ;specif : to issue (a mortgage loan) usually for subsequent sale in a pool of mortgage loans to a secondary market compare service vi : to take or have origin orig·i·na·tion [ə-ri-jə-nā-shən] n orig·i·na·tor [ə-ri-jə-nā-tər] n ...
incriminate
incriminate -nat·ed -nat·ing 1 : to charge with involvement in a crime [he was incriminated in the conspiracy] 2 : to suggest or show involvement of in a crime [among the evidence that incriminated him was a box of trigger devices] see also self-incrimination in·crim·i·na·tion [in-kri-mə-nā-shən] n in·crim·i·na·to·ry [in-kri-mə-nə-tōr-ē] adj ...
subpoena
subpoena also sub·pe·na [sə-pē-nə] n [Latin sub poena under penalty] : a writ commanding a designated person upon whom it has been served to appear (as in court or before a congressional committee) under a penalty (as a charge of contempt) for failure to comply compare summons also subpena vt -naed -na·ing : to call before a court or hearing by a subpoena [the inspector is given the power to any relevant…witnesses "Harvard Law Review"] ;also : to command the production of (evidence) by a subpoena duces tecum [subpoenaed documents] ...
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