summons

Wright's lawyers told the High Court in June that the EA did not have the power to issue the summons and it should be thrown out.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

This includes a charge or summons, a caution, the offender dying, a penalty notice or cannabis warning being issued, a community resolution or where the offence is taken into account with other crimes.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

If “Masters of the Universe” tanks, here’s hoping Galitzine summons the strength to dig himself out of the rubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The new summons, just weeks after Musk didn’t show up for a voluntary interview with French prosecutors, escalates a trans-Atlantic feud over France’s handling of its long-running probe of X.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

A horn’s brassy trumpeting split the air without warning, its summons rising from the distant Temple of Lkossa to reverberate across the Night Zoo’s lawns in long, sonorous notes.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The Justice Department letter said the French had asked for U.S. assistance three times this year, including for serving summonses on X officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

The summonses were issued "as part of the application of administrative sanctions in accordance with the applicable provisions", the minister added.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

Over the past two weeks the disgraced leader had already ignored three summonses issued for him to appear for questioning, leading a Seoul court to issue a warrant for his arrest early this week.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

At Yale, the police placed protesters’ wrists into zip ties on Monday morning and escorted them onto campus shuttles to receive summonses for trespassing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

These were the summonses that you answered with your left foot forward, your right foot back, your hands guarding your face, one slightly lower than the other, cocked like a hammer.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“There should never have been an arrest warrant, because normally she would receive a summons in the mail. In many cases, people who are charged with nonviolent offenses like this are summonsed into court.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

Many of those arrested earlier in the week had been summonsed for Russian military service, state media reported.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022

Mr Mendy, of Prestbury, has been summonsed to appear at Stockport Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021

Then, a few weeks before the alleged incident at the InternContinental, he summonsed her to a boutique hotel in SoHo where Miramax was staging a movie in one of the rooms.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020

"Well," said he at length, "I done summonsed you."

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

Old-fashioned landladies might refuse her lunch, it is true; and a narrowminded police force might desire to secure her, and wrap her in a rug preliminary to summonsing her. 

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

With a terrible love of summonsing, and a thorough enjoyment of a law-court, he enters into the spirit of the thing like an attorney's clerk.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir