NOUN
- someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant
How To Use process-server In A Sentence
- Then two days later, he came home to find a process-server waiting for him. Fiddler Fair
- The proximate cause of his being "Boycotted" was his action is serving four processes himself, because neither love nor money nor threats would induce a process-server to do his work. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
- For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts. Chaucer's Road Show Revisited
- However, the family remains, and no process-server would show his face at the rebuilt house for fifty pounds. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
- Rubempre, endorsed to order of Metivier, and finally to our order, matured the thirtieth of April last, protested by Doublon, process-server, on the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.fr. c. Eve and David
- It is related that a few years ago a Bundela was brought up before the Assistant Commissioner, charged with assaulting a tahsil process-server, and threatening him with his sword. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
- Not a sea-port, where some fine morning the Salaminian galley can appear, bringing a process-server along. The Birds
- The principal process-server in the town of Tipperary has retired from service, and addressed himself to "J.J." for several days past. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
- It will be recollected that about a month ago a process-server and his escort retreated on Lough Mask House, followed by a mob, and that on the following day all the farm servants were ordered to leave Mr. Boycott's employment. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
- The phone's ringing, there's a process-server at the door, and a corporate helicopter has just landed in the back yard. Prayers To Broken Stones