serve summons

Example Sentences

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The Sheriff’s Office might be asked to serve summons or complaints to residents whose bills haven’t been paid or who are being called into court for other matters.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2014

The pernicious system by which the wife is required to serve summons and warrant upon the offending husband who is still in the same city, should be done away with entirely.

From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Colcord, Joanna C.

At the last visit, the Portuguese stated that he would serve summons upon us, which he at once proceeded to do.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

What officer would willingly pursue a ghostly tenant to his last lodging in order to serve summons on him?

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy