Whenever process shall issue against more than one defendant, the forms provided by law may be altered so as to combine the summons, the writ of arrest, and the writ of attachment, in order that they may be served on one or more of the defendants by one form of service and on the other or others by another form of service.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-5-18
Adaptation of forms to more than one defendant
C.P.A. 1905, § 518; G.L. 1909, ch. 299, § 22; G.L. 1923, ch. 349, § 22; G.L. 1938, ch. 514, § 15; G.L. 1956, § 9-5-18; P.L. 1965, ch. 55, § 13.
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