Citation

— practice, is a writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction commanding a person therein named to appear and do something therein mentioned, or to the ecclesiastical law, the citation is the beginning and foundation of the whole cause; it is said to have six requisites, namely, the insertion of the name of the judge—of the promovert—of the impugnant—of the cause of suit—of the place—and of the time of appearance;

— to which may be added the affixing the seal of the court, and the name of the register or his deputy..

1 Bro. Civ. Law, 453, 4; Ayl. Parer. xliti. 175; Hall’s Adm. Pr. 5; Merl. Rep. h. t.

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