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advocate

advocate [Latin advocatus adviser to a party in a lawsuit, counselor, from past participle of advocare to summon, employ as counsel, from ad to + vocare to call] 1 : a person (as a lawyer) who works and argues in support of another's cause esp. in court 2 : a person or group that defends or maintains a cause or proposal [a consumer ] [ad-və-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to argue in favor of vi : to act as an advocate [shall for minority business "V. M. Rivera"] ...

Convoke

To call together to summon to meet to assemble by summons...

Recall

To call back to summon to return as to recall troops to recall an ambassador...

Evocate

To call out or forth to summon to evoke...

Assessors

Assessors, literally those who sit by the side of another: persons appointed to ascertain and fix the value of taxes, rates, etc. Also persons sometimes associated with judges of courts to advise and direct the decisions of such judges.By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 98, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 56, the High Court or the Court of Appeal may, when it may think it expedient other than in a criminal proceeding by the Crown, call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and try and hear the matter in question wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessors. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 88, replacing the County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868, s. 14, provision is made for the appointment of assessors of 'natural skill and experience' in Admiralty actions, and such assessors frequently sit in county courts under the powers of this Act.Schedule II. of the (English) Workmen's Compensa-tion Act, 1925, gives a county court ...

Resummon

To summon again...

Repeal

To recall to summon again as persons...

Assise of darrein presentment

Assise of darrein presentment, or last presentation; it lay when a person, or his ancestors, under whom he claims, had presented a clerk to a benefice who was duly instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presents a clerk, thus disturbing the right of the lawful patron; upon this, the patron issued this writ, directed to the sheriff to summon an assize or jury, to inquire who was the last patron that presented to the church now vacant, of which the plaintiff complains that he is deforced by the defendant, Termes de la Lay. It was, however, abolished, and recourse had to the action of quare impedit (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27). But since the (English) C. L. P. Act, 1860, s. 26, quare impedit cannot be brought, an action in the King's Bench (formerly Common Pleas) Division of the High Court of Justice being substituted for it....

Preconizate

To proclaim to publish also to summon to call...

Minaret

A slender lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin...

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