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v

  1. To deliver a legal document, especially a process or notice; to present a legal notice or subpoena to a person as required by law.
  2. To spend time in the armed forces or in some uniformed service (police, fire, and so on). See also service.

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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