† non-summonsn.
Law. Obsolete.
Failure to serve a summons in due time.
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non-summons1607
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter at Tender To tender his law of non Summons..is to offer himselfe ready to make his law, whereby to prooue that he was not summoned.
1630 Earl of Manchester in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 273 Putting in of dilatory pleas, as non-summons.
1845 E. V. Williams Saunders' Rep. King's Bench II. i. 45 c The summons must be served fifteen days before the day of the return of the writ, otherwise the tenant may wage his law of non-summons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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