compulsory process

1. 1.

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

   Broaderlegal right

Questions about compulsory process

What does compulsory process mean?

compulsory process means "the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court".

Is compulsory process a common word?

compulsory process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.