Process-server (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- A process-server had to navigate through a dense neighborhood to serve a court summons to a notoriously evasive defendant.
- After hours of staking out the target's usual hangouts, the process-server finally tracked down the person being sued and handed them a lawsuit.
- When it became apparent that a crucial defendant in a major class action was refusing mail, a team of skilled process-servers were tasked with physically delivering the necessary court papers.
- Using techniques akin to skip-tracing, professional process-servers skillfully and creatively ensure their intended recipient does, indeed, accept formal documents.
- Through constant patience, understanding and precision timing the craft of serving important and intimidating official documentation ultimately delivers powerful notifications often determining great fortune - according to these brilliant freelance process servers that tackle complicated search processes when summonses originate nationally then disperse instantly city to town