Chapter 4 examines the wide array of daily activities that became the subject of courtroom contests in the decades prior to the First World War. The ease of access and broad participation of the local community as principals and witnesses helped make the police-court summons process the most egalitarian aspect of metropolitan law. As courtrooms incorporated an ever-wider segment of the urban population in a diverse array of operations, courtroom language and its implications also became integrated into personal contests outside the court. And just as particular phrases or concepts changed their meanings when used in a courtroom, their employment outside the courtroom carried other meanings still. Accordingly, the final section of the chapter examines not just what it meant for men and women to summons one another, but what it meant to use the language of summonses in different contexts. With such practices, men and women brought the courtroom, as an imagine space, into an interpersonal contest well before they brought their contests into the courtroom itself.