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Example sentences for "subpoena"

Lexicographically close words:
suborned; suborning; suboxide; subparagraph; subperitoneal; subpoenaed; subpoenas; subprefect; subprior; subprovince
  1. He handed Mrs. Greening's name to the clerk, and requested a subpoena for her as a witness for the defense.

  2. There's the reason," said the officer impatiently; "that subpoena has the power of bringing any man or woman in the city.

  3. A subpoena was made out immediately and given to a policeman, with a few whispered and emphatic injunctions, and Roger was told to accompany him.

  4. Whether an expert witness who has no personal knowledge of the facts is bound to attend on a subpoena is a moot point.

  5. Thus the hospital surgeon, the nerve specialist, or the mental consultant may be served with a subpoena to appear at court on a certain date to give evidence.

  6. I did not see till last night the opinion of the Judge on the subpoena duces tecum against the President.

  7. We think you should immediately despatch a subpoena for Graybell; and while that is on the road, you will have time to consider in what form you will use his testimony; e.

  8. It may perhaps be inferred from hence that the writ of subpoena out of chancery had not yet been applied to protect the cestui que use.

  9. Here's a subpoena for you, Mr. Weller,' said Jackson.

  10. It's only a subpoena in Bardell and Pickwick on behalf of the plaintiff,' replied Jackson, singling out one of the slips of paper, and producing a shilling from his waistcoat pocket.

  11. The subpoena was served, but there was no answer nor appearance.

  12. Sullivan--exempt the one, prosecute the other--summon the former as a defendant and subpoena the latter as a crown witness?

  13. I now declare that I participated in that funeral, and I defy those who were guilty of such cowardice as to subpoena me as a crown witness (applause).

  14. Over this pour a little Standard Oil from which the dividends have been removed, and stir briskly with a subpoena till the oil begins to run; pour off, strain, and beat the paste with an axe until it looks and tastes like a veal cutlet.

  15. She kept on considering it, too, until the trial was well advanced, and had practically made up her mind to denounce the trio and go to the wall herself, when the subpoena was served.

  16. All you had to do was to subpoena a fellow that wanted to come to Washington, and he would remember it.

  17. Mr. Steele was here on the subpoena of the Government.

  18. After an acrimonious discussion Vanderveer suddenly declared: "Just to settle this thing and settle it for now and all the time, I will ask a subpoena forthwith for Philip K.

  19. The subpoena was issued and a recess taken to allow it to be served.

  20. The subpoena is enough to keep any reasonable being, besides the other motive.

  21. It was a subpoena in the case of "The Queen versus Brown," to attend and give evidence on a certain day in May, in London.

  22. It was a subpoena charging Elinor Compton to appear and bear testimony--in the case of the Queen versus Brown.

  23. But you can't just subpoena a woman like that without any warning and put her on the stand and make her testify.

  24. In my next I assured him that all our pictures would be printed, for he would be served by subpoena from the coroner, unless he and his family left the State before 8 o'clock.

  25. I had informed him in my little joke that none could escape the coroner's subpoena unless they left the State.

  26. Mr. Repton, a friend of Mrs. Ballantyne, was called upon a subpoena by the Crown and he testified that while he was a Collector at Agra he went up with his wife from the plains to the hill-station of Moussourie during a hot weather.

  27. He got it the day when Repton appeared in the witness-box on a subpoena from the Crown to bear testimony to the violence of Stephen Ballantyne.

  28. Therefore, no order of the court was served; instead a copy of the bill praying that the Auditor be restrained, together with a subpoena to answer, was sent to Osborn.

  29. If any of the witnesses should be unwilling to come, the justice issues a subpoena [Footnote: For forms, see page 279.

  30. That on the day of , 18, he procured a subpoena for the said J.

  31. The subpoena may contain any number of names and may be served by any one.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subpoena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    call; citation; cite; conjure; convene; demand; evoke; indent; indict; invoke; monition; muster; page; recall; requisition; serve; subpoena; summon; summons; venire; warrant; writ