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sewer service

sewer service noun: the intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.

Noun

sewer service (uncountable)

  1. The intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.
    • A third CORE investigation revealed additional evidence of sewer service.1992, A. Leon Levin, Cases and materials on civil procedure, page 18
    • Ironically, one cause of sewer service is overly stringent requirements that the process server serve the defendant individually, in hand, personally.2012, David Crump, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure

Questions about sewer service

What does sewer service mean?
Sewer service means the intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.
What part of speech is sewer service?
Sewer service is a noun.

Words near sewer service in the dictionary

  1. sewer flies
  2. sewer fly
  3. sewer gas
  4. sewer rat
  5. sewer rats
  6. sewer service
  7. sewer slide
  8. sewer slides
  9. sewer socialism
  10. sewer socialist
  11. sewer socialists

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