Meaning of process server | Babel Free

Definitions

A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.

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“The process⟳ server could not effect service of process⟳ because the defendant was nowhere to be found.”

“The bailiff does not like⟳ to see⟳ himself as the brutal oppressor of the poor or as the agent of malicious creditors... This distinction between warrant officer and process⟳ server is not at all dissimilar to the gulf that divides the law officer and the peace officer in the police force⟳... Warrant officers execute warrants whilst process⟳ servers distribute court summonses and cajole debtors.”

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