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Citation : (noun)
1: an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given
as formal public statement [syn: commendation]
2: (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written
passages or legal precedents etc.)
3: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a
quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list
several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are
usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article
includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: acknowledgment,
credit, reference, mention, quotation]
4: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn: quotation,
quote]
5: a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a
proceeding
6: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948 [syn: Citation]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Citation : \Ci*ta"tion\, n. [F. citation, LL. citatio, fr.L.
citare to cite. See Cite]
1. An official summons or notice given to a person to appear;
the paper containing such summons or notice.
2. The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another
person, in his own words; also, the passage or words
quoted; quotation.
This horse load of citations and fathers. --Milton.
3. Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
4. (Law) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority,
to prove a point in law.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CITATION, practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent, jurisdiction,
commanding a person therein named to appear and do something therein
mentioned, or to show cause why he should not, on a day named. Proct. Pr.
h.t. In the ecclesiastical law, theCitation : is the beginning and foundation
of the whole cause; it is said to have six requisites, namely.: the
insertion of the name of the judge; of the promovert; of the impugnant; of
the cause of suit; of the place; and of the time of appearance; to which may
be added the affixing the seal of the court, and the name of the register or
his deputy. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 453-4; Ayl. Parer. xliii. 175; Hall's Adm. Pr.
5; Merl. Rep. h.t. By, citation is also understood the act by which a
person is summoned, or cited.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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