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CITIZEN

OITAOION

CITACION. In Spanish law. Citation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time.

legal proceedings against him and require his appearance thereto. To read or refer to legal authorities, in an argument to a court or elsewhere, in support of propositions of law sought to be estab lished. A member of a free city or jural society, (civitas,) possess ing all the rights and privileges which can be enjoyed by any person under its consti tution and government, and subject to the corresponding duties. In American law. One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of a particular state, and by virtue of birth or naturalization within the jurisdic tion, is a member of the political community, owing allegiance and being entitled to the enjoyment of full civil rights. U. S. v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 23 L. Ed. 588; White v. Clements, 39 Ga. 259; Amy v. Smith, 1 Litt.

CITATIO.

A citation or summons

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to court. — Citatio ad reassnmendam cansam. A summons to take up the cause. A process, in the cjvil law, which issued when one # of the parties to a suit died, before its determination, for the plaintiff against the defendant's heir, or for the plaintiff's heir against the defendant, as the case might be; analogous to a modern bill of revivor. A sum mons is by natural right Cases in Banco Regis Wm. III. 45a A writ is sued out of a court of competent jurisdic tion, commanding a person therein named to appear on a day named and do something therein mentioned, or show cause why he should not Proc. Prac. The act by which a person is so # summon ed or cited. It is used in this sense, in American law, in the practice upon writs of error from the United States supreme court, and in the proceedings of courts of probate in many of the states. Leavitt v. Leavitt, 135 Mass. 193; State v. McCann, 67 Me. 374; Schwartz v. Lake, 109 La. 1081, 34 South. 96; Cohen v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 410, 5 L. Ed. 257. This is also the name of the process used in the English ecclesiastical, probate, and divorce courts to call the defendant or re spondent before them. 3 Bl. Comm. 100; 3 Steph. Comm. 720. In Scotch practice. The calling of a party to an action done by an officer of the ^jourt under a proper warrant. The service of a writ or bill of summons. Paters. Comp. The reading of, or reference to, legal authorities and precedents, (such as constitutions, stat utes, reported cases, and elementary trea tises,) in arguments to courts, or in legal text-books, to establish or fortify the propo sitions advanced. Law of citations. See LAW. Citationes non concedantur priusquam exprimatur super qua re fieri debet ci tatio. Citations should not be granted be fore it is stated about what matter the cita tion is to be made. A maxim of ecclesiasti cal law. 12 Coke, 44. Citatio est de juri natural!. CITATION. In. practice. CITATION OF AUTHORITIES.

CITE.

a city.

L. Fr. City;

Cite de

Itowndr", city of London.

CITE. To summon; to command the presence of a person; to notify a person of