personal service

personal service definition - legal

n

Actual delivery of a document into the hands of the person for whom it is intended; a delivery of some salable service of manual or intellectual endeavor without charge, as a favor.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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