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Definition of Duces
1. duce [n] - See also: duce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duces
Literary usage of Duces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1894)
"their production may, as a rule, be enforced by the service of the subpoena duces
tecum upon the president or other officer of the corporation in whose ..."
2. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence by Thomas Starkie, George Morley Dowdeswell, John George Malcolm, George Sharswood (1876)
"... duces tecum, may issue from the Crown office, and disobedience will be punished
... duces tecum to produce a document in his possession, unless he has a ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... duces tecum, is now issued by the High Court; and that every person disobeying
such writ, so to be issued by the President, shall be considered as in ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"613, it was said: "At common law there was * * * a writ known as a ' subpoena
duces tecum," which, in addition to requiring the attendance of a witness to ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Subpoena duces tecum.—Where the production of documentary evidence in the possession
of the witness is required, a subpoena duces ..."
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