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Definition of Compulsory process
1. Noun. The right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compulsory Process
Literary usage of Compulsory process
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Constitutional right of the accused to compulsory process to procure the attendance
of witnesses.—The prisoner, even though on trial for his life, ..."
2. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"compulsory process FOE DEFENDANT'S WITNESSES. 1. The constitutional and statutory 2.
Expenses, right . 3. Service. 1. The constitutional and statutory right ..."
3. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell (1884)
"It is no objection to the proof of an admission that it was made under compulsory
process ; thus, an answer to a bill in Chancery, riled against the ..."
4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... to be enforced by compulsory process; "an everlasting supply of all occasions ;"
resisted first in Oxfordshire ; the judges gave answers favorable to ..."
5. Constitutional Law in the United States by Emlin McClain (1904)
"compulsory process for Witnesses. By Amendment VI and similar provisions in the
state constitutions the accused has the privilege of compulsory process for ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"No mandamus can issue, tor that remedy and all compulsory process have been ...
And the creditor could invoke the compulsory process of the courts to secure ..."
7. Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Maurice Powell, Henry Roscoe (1891)
"It is no objection to the proof of an admission that it was mado under compulsory
process ; thus, ..."
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