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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

To request or command to the discharge of a particular duty voice.

— Call a case: to announce may now be tried or argued;

— to a particular list Call a docket, list in open court with inquiry are ready for trial;

— to call for docket or list for trial or argument names of persons summoned the Call a party: to call the name mand him to appear for the plaintiff: formally to nonsuit the don the case, which is effected room and not appearing when to require a prisoner to present ment in presence of the court ness for examination;

— to call his but has not appeared, preparatory In American land law.

To designate object or a course and distance, In English law. Call to the bar: the Inns of Court the degree or