Summonitio
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
t I.
In old English law
A summoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court; a command or precept of the king that one be before him, to answer or to do something; a precept to the sheriff, that he cause some one to come, or have the body of some one, or attach him.