Service of process
Official process of notifying someone of legal proceedings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the U.S. legal system, service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to force that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body, or other tribunal.
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Notice is furnished by delivering a set of court documents (called "process") to the person to be served.