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CITATION (Lat. citare, to cite)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CITATION (See also:Lat. citare, to cite)  , in See also:law, a See also:summons to appear, more particularly applied in See also:England to See also:process in the See also:probate and See also:divorce See also:division of the high See also:court . In the ecclesiastical courts, See also:citation was .a method of commencing a probate suit, answering to a See also:writ of summons at See also:common law, and it is now in See also:English probate practice an See also:instrument issuing from the See also:principal probate registry, chiefly used when a See also:person, having the See also:superior right to take a See also:grant, delays or declines to do so, and another having an inferior right desires to obtain a grant; the party having the See also:prior right is cited to appear and either to renounce the grant or show cause why it should not be decreed to the citator . In divorce practice, when a petitioner has filed his See also:petition and See also:affidavit, he extracts a citation, i.e. a command See also:drawn in the name of the See also:sovereign and signed by one of the registrars of the court, calling upon the alleged offender to appear and make See also:answer to the petition . In Scots law, citation is used in the sense of a writ of summons . The word in its more See also:general See also:literary sense means the See also:act of quoting, or the referring to an authority in support of an See also:argument . C!TEAUX, a See also:village of eastern See also:France, in the See also:department of Cote d'Or, 16 m . S.S.E. of See also:Dijon by road . It is celebrated for the See also:great See also:abbey founded by See also:Robert, See also:abbot of Molesme, in ro98, which became the headquarters of the Cistercian See also:order . The buildings which remain date chiefly from the 18th See also:century and are of little See also:interest . The See also:church, destroyed in 1792, used to contain the tombs of the earlier See also:dukes of See also:Burgundy .

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