a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
noun
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
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