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January
2024

Subpoena /

Soudní obsílka

Business Term of the Day

Definition

A subpoena is a court order demanding physical evidence or appearance at court to provide testimony.

Example sentence

When the suspect eventually named several people, he was told he could be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear.

Comment

Failure to comply with a subpoena results in a penalty (the Latin sub poena literally means under penalty). An order to present evidence is termed a subpoena duces tecum, while a subpoena ad testificandum summons the recipient to appear in court to provide testimony.

Definice

Soudní obsílka je rozhodnutí soudu, které požaduje fyzické důkazy nebo účast u soudu kvůli svědectví.

Příklad použití ve větě

Když podezřelý nakonec několik lidí jmenoval, řekli mu, že by ho mohlo uklidnit, že už všichni obdrželi soudní obsílku k účasti.

Poznámka

Nevyhovění obsílce je trestáno (latinská fráze sub poena znamená doslova pod trestem). Nařízení pro předložení podkladů se nazývá subpoena duces tecum, a subpoena ad testificandum označuje obsílku pro účast u soudu pro podání svědectví.

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