subpoena duces tecum
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- noun
- /səˈpiːnə ˈduːkɪz ˈtiːkəm/
- Formal
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citación para presentar documentos
- "Just think that with years of experience, he issued subpoenas for Trayvon's school records under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure rather than Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure, which requires subpoenas duces tecum to be issued by the judge.
Examples
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This is a subpoena duces tecum requiring you to appear before the Special June 1993 Grand Jury on Friday, June.
Fiction book (1999) -
The court issued a subpoena duces tecum for her medical records to be presented at the trial.
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He received a subpoena duces tecum that required him to bring the documents to the hearing.
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The attorney prepared a subpoena duces tecum to request all relevant financial records from the company.
Synonyms
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A written order from a court telling someone to go to court or bring papers
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A document from a court that orders someone to do or stop something
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a conventionalized legal Latin formula: while 'subpoena' is an English legal term, the words 'duces tecum' are Latin and encode the specific instruction to bring documents. This specialized, language-specific legal usage is not transparently derivable by an average B1 learner from the constituent words, so the expression is opaque.
Etymology
Subpoena duces tecum comes from old Latin words: subpoena means 'under penalty' and duces tecum means 'bring with you'. The image is of a court ordering someone to come and bring papers, so today it means an order to appear and provide documents.