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How to pronounce “subpoena”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of subpoena with real speech in context.
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- AI Governance & Risk Management
without even a subpoena, to the source code of any
- Definition summary
- (law) A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.
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How to pronounce subpoena
AI Governance & Risk Management

without even a subpoena, to the source code of any
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “subpoena”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (law) A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.
- (historical, law) A writ requiring a defendant to appear in court to answer a plaintiff's claim (a subpoena ad respondendum); in England and Wales, and Ireland, this writ was formerly issued by the Court of Chancery at the plaintiff's request to commence a suit, but the procedure was abolished in 1852.
- (figurative) A motive or thing which can compel or demand something, or summon someone.
- [Verb]
- (law) To summon (someone) with a subpoena (noun noun sense 1) to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony or to produce evidence; to serve a subpoena on (someone).
- (law) To require (a document or other evidence) to be produced before a court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding.
- (figurative) To compel or summon (someone or something); to demand.
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