Call

1, V, (1) To require a prisoner to present himself and answer the indictment, in the immediate presence of the court, is to call him to or before the bar.* See Arraign. (3) To admit to the rights and privileges of a practitioner of law is to call a studentat-law to the bar. In England, _" call-day" is the day in each term when those who have been students are admitted to practice law.

Call a case

For a judge to announce that a cause is about to be placed on a particular list, or to proclaim that a cause on 1 Babbitt v. United States, 16 Ct. CI.

203, 215-17 (1880). See United States v. Morton, 112 U. S. 1, 3 (1884).

As to cadet-engineers, see also United States v. Redgraye, 116 id.

474 (1886); United States v. Perkins, ih.

483 (1886). a Rives V. Guthi-ie, 1 Jones L. 86-87 (N. C, 1853), Nash, C. J. such list may now be determined by a trial by a jury or by argument before the court. Call a list or docket. To inquire publicly in open court as to what causes on a list are ready for trial; also, to call for trial or argument certain causes already set or fixed for such determination.! Whence, m the practice of some courts, the " first," the " second," and perhaps the " third " call of a case or list; also "the call." Call a jury. To draw the names of persons to serve as a jury, out of the names of all of those who have been summoned as jurors.

Call a party

To call aloud his name in open court, and to command him to appear in order to perform some duty. Call the plaintiflF. At common law, when counsel for the plaintiff perceives that his client has not made out a case, the client may withdraw from the court room: whereupon the crier is required to call the plaintiff. If he does not answer the call (made thrice in succession), judgment of nonsuit is entered. ^ The nonsuit is more eligible for the plaintiff than a verdict against him.^ Call a witness. To call his name aloud in, and perhaps about, the room of the court at which he has been subpoenaed to appear, before an attachment issues for disobedience. Also, to present a witness for examination in a trial or hearing then in progress. Hecalling a witness, who has been once examined and dismissed. Is a matter almost wholly within the discretion of the trial court.* See Produce, 1. 2, n. (1) A notice or demand by the directors of a stock corporation upon a subscriber to pay money on account of his shares. The word may refer to the resolution, its notification, or the time when it becomes payable. < A court of equity may enforce payment of stock subscriptions though there have been no calls for them by the company... Subscriptions are in the nature of a fund for the payment of debts, and calls may be made whenever funds are needed for such payment... A formal call need not be made before a bill in equity is filed: filing the bill is equivalent to a, call.'

See Put, 3; Stock, 3 (3). •See Blanchard v. Ferdinand, 132 Mass. 391 (1882).

2 [3 Bl. Com. 376. 'Keating v. Brown, 30 Minn. 10 (If 3 3). 'Ambergate, &o. E. Co. u. Mitchell, 4 Ex. E. *543 (1849), Parke, B. (2) A designation of the limit of a boundary. A "locative call" refers to a physical object rather than to a course or distance. See further Botjndaey.