monitory letter

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monitory letter - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MONITORY LETTER, eccl. law. The process of an official, a bishop or other 
  prelate having jurisdiction, issued to compel, by ecclesiastical censures, 
  those who know of a crime or other matter which requires to be explained, to 
  come and reveal it. Merl. Repert. h.t.