This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol11 Common Law Pleading, Code Pleading, Federal Procedure, Evidence", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Unless such power is expressly or by necessary implication conferred by statute, an officer or commissioner appointed by the courts of another state is powerless to compel the attendance before him of witnesses, or the production of books or papers.16 Where the legislature has conferred such power by statute on a court, or an officer, or the commissioner or other officer before whom the deposition is to be taken, the attendance, testimony, and the production of books and papers, by the witness, may be compelled by court order, subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, summons, or other process, as prescribed by statute, in the same manner as in the trial of a cause before the courts of the state in which the deposition is being taken; and the witness may be attached for contempt of court, in case he refuses to obey such order, subpoena, summons, or other process.17
 
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