Monition
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
A monition is a formal order of the court commanding something to be done by the person to whom it is directed, and who is called the “person monished.” Thus, when money is decreed to be paid, a monition may be obtained commanding its payment. In ecclesiastical procedure, a monition is an order monishing or warning the party complained against to do or not to do a certain act “onder pain of the law and contempt thereof.” A monition may also be appended to a sentence inflicting a punishment for a past offense; in that case the monition forbids the repetition of the offense. Sweet. In admiralty practice. Ihe summons to appear and answer, issued on filing the libel; which is either a simple monition in personam or an attachment and monition tz rem.
Ben. Adm. 228, 239.
It is sometimes termed “monition viis et modis,” and has been supposed to be derived from the old The monition, in American admiralty practice, is, in effect, a summons, citation, or notice, though in form a command to the marshal to cite and admonish the defendant to appear and answer, and not a summons addressed ta the party. % Conk. Adm. (2d Hd.) 147.