Summons

A Summon is the act of initiate a selective process to fill certain positions in a body or category that have previously been included in the corresponding public job offer. It is in summary, the call for an Opposition. They can also be calls for tenders, for example, a public tender.

This is the default way of calling a general meeting of shareholders, either it could be an ordinary meeting or an extraordinary meeting. In the first case and if it was not summoned within the legal deadline, any shareholder can ask the judge to agree to the summon. In case that the directors do not attend the legitimate shareholders who request an Extraordinary Meeting, they can ask to the judge who will have to deal with this request, to summon the general meeting. In this case, the judge will pronounce his decision without a prior hearing of the directors, this is mandatory in case that the summon of an ordinary general meeting is requested.

Is an official calling (by personal or public notice) of one or more people to attend a certain place and time. A summons is also the decree by which it calls Courts and their elections or even the call of creditors which is the presentation to the court of a merchant to request a creditors meeting in order to prevent a bankruptcy.