Service

In contracts. The being employed to serve another; duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another. The term is used also for employment in one of the offices, departments, or agencies of the government; as in the phrases "civll service," "publlc service," etc. In feudal law. Service was the consideration which the feudal tenants were bound to render to the lord in recompense for the lands they held of him. The services, in respect of their quality, were either free or base services, and, in respect of their quantity and the time of exacting them, were either certain or uncertain. 2 Bl. Comm. 60. In practice. The exhibition or delivery of a writ, notice, injunction, etc., by an authorized person, to a person who is thereby officially notified of some action or proceeding in which he is concerned, and is thereby advised or warned of some action or step which he is commanded to take or to forbear. See Walker v. State, 52 Ala. 193; U. S. v. McMahon, 164 U. S. 81, 17 Sup. Ct. 28, 41 In Ed. 357; Sanford v. Dick, 17 Conn. 213; Cross v. Barber, 16 R. I. 266, 15 Atl. 69.
—Civil Service. See that title.
—Constructive service of process. Any form of service other than actuni personal service ; notification of an action or of some proceeding therein, given to a person affected by sending it to him in the mails or causing it to be published in a newspaper.
—Personal service. Personal service of a writ or notice is made by delivering it to the person named, in person, or handing him a copy and informing him of the nafure and terms of the original. Leaving a copy at his place of abode is not personui service, Moyer v. Cook, 12 Wis. 336.
—Salvage service. See Salvage.
—Secular service. Worldly employment or service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical.
—Service by publication. Service of a summons or other process upon an absent or non-resident defendant by publishing the same as an advertisement in a designated newspaper, with such other efforts to give him acfual notice as the particular stafute may prescribe.
—Service of an heir. An old form of Scotch law, fixing the right and character of an heir to the estate of his ancestor. Bell.
—Service of process. The service of write, summonses, rules, etc., signifies the delivering to or leaving them with the arty to whom or with whom they ought to e delivered or left; and, when they are so delivered, they are then said to have been served. Usually a copy only is served and the original is shown. Brown.
—Special service. In Scotch law. That form of service by which the heir is served to the ancestor who was feudally vested in the lands. Bell.
—Substituted service. This term generally denotes any form of service of process other than personal service, such as service by mail or by publication in a newspaper; but it is sometimes employed to denote service of a writ or notice on some person other than the one directly concerned, for example, his attorney of record, Who has authority to represent him or to accept service for him.