Legal Definition and Related Resources of Letters Rogatory
Meaning of Letters Rogatory
A request by a court to another in a foreign country requesting that a witness be examined in the latter’s jurisdiction on the interrogatories accompanying the request.
Letters Rogatory Alternative Definition
An instrument sent in the name and by the authority of a judge or court to another, requesting the latter to cause to be examined, upon interrogatories filed in a cause depending before the former, a witness who is within the jurisdiction of the judge or court to whom such letters are addressed.
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Letters rogatory in Law Enforcement
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Meaning of Letters Rogatory in Spanish
Description/ translation of letters rogatory into Spanish: carta rogatoria[1]
Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where letters rogatory belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.
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- Translation of Letters Rogatory published by Antonio Peñaranda
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police Work
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- letters rogatory in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- letters rogatory in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
Sworn statements that are made before judicial authorities in one country to be used as evidence in the courts of another state.
Sworn statements that are made before judicial authorities in one country to be used as evidence in the courts of another state.
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