Impleadment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of impleading, or the state of being impleaded. countable, uncountable
"Of course, a state cannot authorize the impleadment of a corporation on substituted service, except possibly, as to property having a situs in such state, but service on the president of a corporation as he is passing through a state or service on an agent duly appointed to accept service of process is not substituted service."
Example
More examples"Of course, a state cannot authorize the impleadment of a corporation on substituted service, except possibly, as to property having a situs in such state, but service on the president of a corporation as he is passing through a state or service on an agent duly appointed to accept service of process is not substituted service."
Etymology
From implead + -ment.
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