Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
John Doe summons
1 A summons to a person whose name is unknown at the time of service. 2. Tax. A summons from the Internal Revenue Service to a third party to provide information on an unnamed, unknown tax payer with potential tax liability. - Also termed third party record-custodian sum mons.
Resummons
A second or renewed summons to a party or witness already summoned. See SUMMONS.
Summon
ub. To command (a person) by service of a summons to appear in court. - Also termed summons.
Summoneas
n. [Law Latin "you are to summon"] Hist. A writ ordering a party to appear in court.
Summoner
Hist. A petty officer charged with summoning parties to appear in court. See NUNTIUS. "But process, as we are now to consider it, is the method taken by the law to compel a compliance with the original writ, of which the primary step is by giving the party notice to obey it. This notice is given by summons; which is a warning to appear in court given to the defendant by two of the sheriff's messengers called summoners, either in person or left at his house or land." 3
Summonitio
n. [Law Latin fr. Latin summonere "to summon"] Hist. A summons.
Summons
ub 1 SUMMON. 2. To request (information) by summons. "The horrible expression 'summonsed for an offence' (turning the noun 'summons' into a verb) has now become accepted usage, but 'summoned' remains not only allowable but preferable." Glanville Williams, Learning the Law 15 n.28 (11th ed. 1982).
alias summons
A second summons issued after the original summons has failed for some reason.
short summons
A summons having a response time less than that of an ordinary summons, usu. served on a fraudulent or nonresident debtor.
short summons.
See SUMMONS.
summonitores scaccarii
[Law Latin] Hist. Exchequer officers who assisted in revenue collections by summoning defaulters to court.
third-party record-custodian summons
See John Doe summons under SUMMONS.
writ of summons
English lace. A writ by which, under the Judicature Acts of 1873-1875, all actions were commenced. See SUMMONS.