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Definition of Process-server
1. Noun. Someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Process-server
Literary usage of Process-server
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1846)
"... process-server. BY A "COVE" OF CORK. ON a fine, cold, frosty morning, in the
month of November, I think it was, in the year — no matter what year, ..."
2. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, Edward Alfred Hadley (1868)
"4. e. 126. s. 147, which limits the action against such trustees to " three months
after the fact committed." Ibid. (A) Against Process-Server for ..."
3. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1865)
"And thereupon the plaintiff retained and employed the defendant as such process
server to serve the said writ of summons upon the said W. Wignall, ..."
4. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Tindal King, W. O. Goldschmidt, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1901)
"The affidavit of service cannot be dispensed with, even though the process server
by foreign law cannot make the affidavit required by O. ..."
5. Digest of the Practice of the Exchequer of Pleas in Ireland: To which is by William Stewart (1823)
"W If the Process-Server is maltreated, At the time of serving the process, if
the Process- (0 If process issue against baron 351. SC 1 Man. Exch. Frac. 62. ..."
6. Diary of the Parnell Commission by John Macdonald (1890)
"The last witness produced by the Attorney-General was a Mr. Courcey, who had been
in Loughrea in-5-6, and who had known the process-server, Finlay, ..."
7. The Irish Jurist (1851)
"If an attorney does not exercise due diligence in inquiring into the character
of a person whom he employs as process server, he will be held liable ..."
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