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Substituted service, of a writ of summons, service on some person representing the defendant, instead of on the defendant personally. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord. X. Leave is given sometimes to effect the substituted service by means of advertisement....
substituted service
substituted service : the service of a writ, process, or summons otherwise than by personal service (as by mail or publication or by leaving it at a defendant's place of business or residence or with an agent) called also constructive service ...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
service
service 1 : the act of delivering to or informing someone of a writ, summons, or other notice as prescribed by law [after of process] see also notice by publication at notice, substituted service, summons NOTE: Although service of process is primarily the means for a court to exert personal jurisdiction over a person, some form of service (as by publication of notice in a newspaper) is also usually required for exercise of in rem or quasi in rem jurisdiction. 2 a : useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity usually used in pl. [payment for s rendered] b : the maintenance or repair of tangible property [machinery for the and improvement of the residence] vt ser·viced ser·vic·ing : to provide services for: as a : to meet interest and sinking fund payments on (debt) [didn't have the cash flow to a large loan] b : to collect payments and maintain a payment schedule for (a loan) esp. after sale of the loan to a secondary mortgage market (as the Federal ...
constructive service
constructive service : substituted service ...
Advertisement
Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
Civil Service Reform
The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service esp the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office...
Substitution
Substitution, indicate that the process cannot be split up into two pieces like this. If the process described as substitution fails, it is totally in-effective so as to leave intact what was sought to be displaced, State of Maharashtra v. C.P. Manganese Ore Co., AIR 1977 SC 879: (1977) 1 SCC 643.Substitution. In the Civil Law a conditional appointment of a h'res. See Cum. C.L. 143; Sand Just.In Scots law the enumeration or designation of the heirs in a settlement of property. Substitutes in an entail are those heirs who are appointed in succession on failure of others.The word substitution necessarily or always connotes two severable steps, that is to say, one of repeal and another of fresh enactment. Indeed, the natural meaning of the word 'substitution' is to indicate that the process cannot be split up into two pieces like this. If the process described as substitution fails, it is totally ineffective so as to leave intact what was sought to be displaced. That seems to be the ordin...
substitution
substitution : the substituting of one person or thing for another: as a in the civil law of Louisiana : a disposition not in trust by which a donee, heir, or legatee is charged to hold property transferred and return it to a third person compare fidei commissum, vulgar substitution NOTE: Substitutions are prohibited. b : replacement of a party to an action with a successor or representative upon motion to the court when the party is unable to continue litigating (as because of death, incompetency, transfer of interest, or loss of the office for which the party was suing or being sued in an official capacity) c : the replacement of a new agreement or obligation for an old one see also novation sub·sti·tu·tion·al [-shə-nəl] n sub·sti·tu·tion·ary [-shə-nər-ē] adj ...
vulgar substitution
vulgar substitution [French substitution vulgaire, from Latin substitutio vulgaris, literally, ordinary substitution, as distinguished from substitutio pupillaris substitution of an heir in place of a minor who actually receives the testamentary gift but dies before reaching the age of majority] in the civil law of Louisiana : a testamentary disposition in which the person making the will names another person to take the gift in the event that the instituted heir does not accept it or is already deceased ...
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