An order commanding a person to appear before a court
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Subpoena
(sə-pee-nə)
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order commanding a person to appear before a court
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Definition - An order commanding a person to appear before a court or other tribunal, subject to penalty for failing to comply.
Also subpoena duces tecum - A subpoena ordering a witness to
appear and bring specified documents, records or things. Black's Law Dictionary® Eighth
Edition © 2004
Recent usage - Google has refused to comply with the subpoena, issued last year, for a broad range of material from its databases, including a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period, lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department said in papers filed Wednesday in federal court in San Jose.
The Associated Press, January 23, 2006.