subpoena
a legal document ordering someone to appear in court
TRANSLATION
subpoena = die Vorladung subpoena (verb) = jemanden vorladen --- GOOGLE INDEX subpoena: approximately 2,600,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
U.S. Judge Orders Watson Executive to Comply With FTC SUBPOENA
(BusinessWeek magazine)
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The US government has SUBPOENAED the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.
(BBC News)
(BusinessWeek magazine)
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The US government has SUBPOENAED the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.
(BBC News)
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subpoena
noun
- a writ ordering a person to attend court
verb
- to summon someone with a subpeona
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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1930s Hollywood star Mary Astor maintained a diary. In a bitter divorce trial, her husband Dr. Franklin Thorpe threatened to use the diary in the court proceedings. The result was that Astor's lover, George Kaufman, received a subpoena to appear in court and testify that he had an affair with her.
Gravely embarrassed, Kaufman fled Hollywood and remained secluded for some time, returning only long after the case had been settled. The story then goes that after this experience, Kaufman asked every woman of interest a number of questions, chief among them: "Do you happen to keep a diary?"
Etymology: From the Middle Latin "sub poena", meaning under penalty. Sub poena are the first words of the writ commanding the presence of someone in court under the penalty of failure (from the Latin sub - under - and poena - penalty).
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The subpoena only means that you have to appear in court to testify. You are not going to jail."
noun
- a writ ordering a person to attend court
verb
- to summon someone with a subpeona
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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1930s Hollywood star Mary Astor maintained a diary. In a bitter divorce trial, her husband Dr. Franklin Thorpe threatened to use the diary in the court proceedings. The result was that Astor's lover, George Kaufman, received a subpoena to appear in court and testify that he had an affair with her.
Gravely embarrassed, Kaufman fled Hollywood and remained secluded for some time, returning only long after the case had been settled. The story then goes that after this experience, Kaufman asked every woman of interest a number of questions, chief among them: "Do you happen to keep a diary?"
Etymology: From the Middle Latin "sub poena", meaning under penalty. Sub poena are the first words of the writ commanding the presence of someone in court under the penalty of failure (from the Latin sub - under - and poena - penalty).
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The subpoena only means that you have to appear in court to testify. You are not going to jail."
