Monition
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
A process in the nature of a summons, issued, as in the admiralty and in ecclesiastical courts, by courts which proceed according to the civil law. The monition in the admiralty is general, special or mixed, — general, when it cites all interested persons; special, when it cites persons named; mixed, when it is both general and special.