COMPULSORY PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compulsory process mean? 

• COMPULSORY PROCESS (noun)
  The noun COMPULSORY PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court

  Familiarity information: COMPULSORY PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPULSORY PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("compulsory process" is a kind of...):

legal right (a right based in law)