Usually means: Official order to attend court.
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  2. subpena: Wiktionary
  3. Subpena, subpena: Dictionary.com
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  5. Subpena: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. subpena: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Subpena: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. subpena: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. subpena: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Subpena: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subpena: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. subpena: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. subpena: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Subpena)

noun:  (Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena [(law) A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.]
verb:  (Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena [(law) To summon (someone) with a subpoena (noun sense 1) to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony or to produce evidence; to serve a subpoena on (someone).]

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