First recorded in 1605–15
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The other process server ran and sought help, court records said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
And in late May, after months of failed attempts, a process server delivered court papers to Shaquille O’Neal, the retired basketball star, who was sued for promoting FTX, according to legal filings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Instead, they're reacting like Jayson Boebert flipping his lid on a process server handing him divorce papers, i.e. they are not happy about it.
From Salon ● May 18, 2023
The opening segment of “Night Court” with John Larroquette as a process server was wonderful entertainment and so well written.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2023
This venerable ancestor was, I have been told, a process server in one of the poorest parishes of the Rouergue.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fees and costs will have their cravings; and from the process-server to the Hangman all will have their due.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
How the volunteer process-server ever lived to get across the bridge of death no man might know.
From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis
In Germany a foreign process-server would be liable to penal servitude.
From With Zola in England by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
However, the family remains, and no process-server would show his face at the rebuilt house for fifty pounds.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
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