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Certificate of service






Certificate of service

A written statement proving to the court and completed by a process server that a copy of a document was served to the person for whom it was intended.

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Statement
Pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, is enacted, "that in all cases where a suit may be brought in any court of record for the recovery of any debt founded on a verbal promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill, or all or any of them, and which from the amount thereof may not be cognizable before a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff, either by himself, his agent or attorney, to file in the office of the pro-thonotary a statement of his, her or their demand, on or before the third day of the term to which the process issued is returnable, particularly specifying the date of the promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill or all or any of them, on which the demand is founded, and the whole amount which he, she, or they believe is justly due to him, her or them from the defendant."

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.

Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.



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Certificate
Practice. A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of anything done therein; or it is a writing by which an officer or other person bears testimony that a fact has or has not taken place.

Certificate of citizenship
Identity document proving U.S. citizenship. Certificates of citizenship are issued to derivative citizens and to persons who acquired U.S. citizenship (see definitions for Acquired and Derivative Citizenship).

Certificate of incorporation
A company is a separate legal entity governed by the Companies Act, which conducts activities on its own behalf and is distinct from the persons who own and control it. The shareholders are the owners and control the company, but their liability in relation to the company's creditors is limited. Incorporation is the process by which the company is entered on the register at the Companies Registry, and thereby comes into existence as a separate legal person. A Certificate of Incorporation will be sent to the company by the Companies Registry on first incorporation and on any change of name.

Certificate of mailing
A written statement proving to the court that a copy of a certain document was mailed to the person for whom it was intended.

Certificate of title
Document issued by Registrar of Titles for real estate registered under the Torrens System, which is considered conclusive evidence of the present ownership and state of the title to the property described therein.

Certificate, attorney's
Practice, English law. Attorneys are required to deliver to the commissioners of stamp duties, a paper or note-in writing, containing the name and usual place of residence of such person, and thereupon, on paying certain duties, such person is entitled to a certificate attesting the payment of such duties, which must be renewed yearly.

Certificate, judge's
English practice. The judge who tries the cause is authorized by several statutes in certain cases to certify, so as to decide when the party or parties shall or shall not be entitled to costs.

Certification
1) Written attestation. 2) Authorized declaration verifying that an instrument is a true and correct copy of the original.

Certification or certificate of assise
A term used in the old English law, applicable to a writ granted for the reexamination or re-trial of a matter passed by assise before justices.

Certified copy
A copy of the document contained in the court file. it includes a stamped seal confirming that the copy is indeed a true and correct copy of the document contained in the court file.

Certiorari
(United Kingdom) A writ from a High Court to a lower Court.



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Cepit in alio loco
Pleadings. He took in another place.

Certificate
Practice. A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of anything done therein; or it is a writing by which an officer or other person bears testimony that a fact has or has not taken place.

Certificate of citizenship
Identity document proving U.S. citizenship. Certificates of citizenship are issued to derivative citizens and to persons who acquired U.S. citizenship (see definitions for Acquired and Derivative Citizenship).

Certificate of incorporation
A company is a separate legal entity governed by the Companies Act, which conducts activities on its own behalf and is distinct from the persons who own and control it. The shareholders are the owners and control the company, but their liability in relation to the company's creditors is limited. Incorporation is the process by which the company is entered on the register at the Companies Registry, and thereby comes into existence as a separate legal person. A Certificate of Incorporation will be sent to the company by the Companies Registry on first incorporation and on any change of name.

Certificate of mailing
A written statement proving to the court that a copy of a certain document was mailed to the person for whom it was intended.

Certificate of service

Certificate of title
Document issued by Registrar of Titles for real estate registered under the Torrens System, which is considered conclusive evidence of the present ownership and state of the title to the property described therein.

Certificate, attorney's
Practice, English law. Attorneys are required to deliver to the commissioners of stamp duties, a paper or note-in writing, containing the name and usual place of residence of such person, and thereupon, on paying certain duties, such person is entitled to a certificate attesting the payment of such duties, which must be renewed yearly.

Certificate, judge's
English practice. The judge who tries the cause is authorized by several statutes in certain cases to certify, so as to decide when the party or parties shall or shall not be entitled to costs.

Certification
1) Written attestation. 2) Authorized declaration verifying that an instrument is a true and correct copy of the original.

Certification or certificate of assise
A term used in the old English law, applicable to a writ granted for the reexamination or re-trial of a matter passed by assise before justices.

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