SERVICE OF PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service of process mean? 

• SERVICE OF PROCESS (noun)
  The noun SERVICE OF PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone

  Familiarity information: SERVICE OF PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICE OF PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

service; service of process; serving

Context example:

he accepted service of the subpoena

Hypernyms ("service of process" is a kind of...):

bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))

 Context examples 

Where, for the first time in many revolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilities was not proclaimed, from day to day, by importune voices declining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on the door for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service of process was not required, and detainees were merely lodged at the gate!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)