Subpoena ad testificandum

A charge (depending on the area of ​​law and regulatory practice, eg summons, invitation, invitation to message; outdated and citation ) is a request for personal appearance before a state body (authority or court ).

In the context of court charges the change to a date other than transhipment, lifting the charge is referred to as unloading.

The term summons notice is accurate only for citations that establish a ( forcibly enforceable ) legal obligation to show ( a communication has always been an administrative act, which is a legally non- binding request is not).

Form

In certain cases ( eg § 25 Federal Police Act, police summons ) can be a subpoena orally or relatively informal. One is not always obliged to comply with a subpoena, for example, in the case of a police summons, which in individual cases always the summons ( legal remedies, if any ) itself should be taken from or is that you consult a lawyer. Depending on the nature of the summons and the law of their country, the mandatory character vary greatly.

Content

Therefore, a summons is generally used only clarification of facts, but not necessarily the implementation of further measures, such as an arrest.

The charge for criminal inaugural represents a special form of the summons dar. to a term of imprisonment of sentenced persons who are not already in custody, will be asked in this way by the prosecution as the competent executing authority to present themselves at a certain date in the respective prison. While most of us condemned in this way even to the beginning of the sentence, this has usually meant that he can reach ( for example, the accommodation in an open prison ) now enjoy certain relaxations enforcement.

If the charge, however, is not made to the Criminal inaugural episode, was made in the rule, an arrest warrant against the person. It is then searched by the police and arrested in case of success and brought into the prison.

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