which is either a simple monition in personam or an attachment and monition in rem. Ben. Adm. 22S, 230. It is sometimes termed “monition fits et modis,” and has Leen supposed to be derived from the old Itoman practice of summoning a defendant. Mauro v. Almeida, 10 Wheat. 400, 6 L. Ed. 309. The monition, in American admiralty practice, is, in effect, a summons, citation, or notice, though in form a command to the marshal to cile and admonish the defendant to appear and answer, and not a summons addressed to the party. 2 Conk. Adm. (2d Ed.) 147.
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