0 to order someone to go to a law court to answer questions:
A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
[ + to infinitive ] They were subpoenaed to testify before the judge.
1 a legal document ordering someone to appear in a law court:
Subpoenas were issued to several government employees.
2 to order someone to go to a court of law to answer questions, or to order the appearance of documents in a court of law:
to subpoena a witness
3 to order someone to go to a court of law to answer questions:
4 to order that documents must be produced in a court of law:
subpoena documents/records Company records were subpoenaed in the investigation into malpractice.
5 a legal document ordering someone to appear in a court of law or to produce documents:
6 the power of a court, committee, etc. to order someone to appear and give evidence or documents to be produced:
If somebody is subpoenaed, that is a different matter: they are subpoenaed.
The policeman if he is subpoenaed has to give evidence, and may have conduct money.
I can do, because responsibility for paying an attendance fee to a witness is the responsibility of the person who subpoenas him.
In a civil case a witness must look to the person who subpoenaed him for payment of his fee.
Provision is made for evidence to be taken on oath and for witnesses to be subpoenaed.
The committee is perfectly capable of subpoenaing people to come along to give it such technical advice as and when it is needed.
In the retrial, witnesses could be subpoenaed, and the whole matter could be properly threshed out.
Witnesses can be subpoenaed provided that they are within the jurisdiction of the court.
