Nocitation was issued upon this appeal returnable to the next term of this court, nor was the record filed and the cause docketed during that term. On the 29th of May, 1865, however, acitation was issued, returnable at this term, and service of thiscitation was acknowledged by the present district attorney; and the writ was returned and the record filed at this term, under an agreement between the district attorney and the attorney for the claimants, to submit the cause upon printed briefs.
The act ofciting a passage from atext, or from another person, using theexact words of the original text or speech and givingcredit to the original byreferencing.
An entry in a list ofsources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribedbibliographical style; areference.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide[1], page 3:
Historically, target words were garnered through focused reading programs andcitations were handwritten on slips of paper which were collated alphabetically and stored in drawers for ready access (much like old-fashioned library catalogues).
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