to serve a writ

  • 41Served — Serve Serve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Served}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serving}.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. & F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf …

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  • 42Serving — Serve Serve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Served}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serving}.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. & F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf …

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  • 43Torrey Canyon — The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was wrecked off the western coast of Cornwall in 1967 causing an environmental disaster.The shipWhen laid down in the United States in 1959 she… …

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  • 44nihil — Latin for nothing. Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009. nihil …

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  • 45Elisor — E*li sor, n. [F. [ e]liseur, fr. [ e]lire to choose, L. eligere. See {Elect}.] (Eng. Law) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified. [1913… …

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  • 46Writers to the Signet — The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is the oldest legal society in the world. It is a private society of Scottish solicitors. The Society dates back to 1594 and is part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had… …

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  • 47Harry Grindell Matthews — (March 17, 1880 ndash; September 11, 1941) was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s. [cite web |url=http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/PagesBiogy/Matthews HG.htm |title=Harry Grindell Matthews of …

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  • 48Slindon — infobox UK place country = England static static image caption= Slindon post office latitude= 50.86739 longitude= 0.63515 official name =Slindon population = shire district= Arun shire county= West Sussex region= South East England constituency… …

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  • 49Lothar Neethling — General Lothar Paul Neethling (29 August 1935 11 July 2005) was chief deputy commissioner (second in command) of the South African Police in the apartheid era.A highly qualified scientist, General Lothar Neethling was alleged to have used police… …

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  • 50nihil est — /nay(h)al est/ There is nothing. A form of return made by a sheriff when he has been unable to serve the writ …

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