Summoners
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Petty officers who cite men to appear in any court. SUMMONITIO (Law Lat.) In old English practice. A suttimoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court, of which there were various kinds. Spelman; Fleta, lib.
6, c. 6.
A command or precept of the king that one be before him to answer or do something, or that one be and have such a one to answer or to do something. Bracton, fol.
333.
SUMMONITIONES AUT CITATIONES nullae liceant fieri intra palatium regis. Let no summonses or citations be served within the king's palace.
3 Inst. 141.