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SUBSTITUTE DEFENDANT

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When another party is subsituted for an existing defendant to a lawsuit. … [Read more...]

SUBSTITUTE GOODS

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Goods that are similar but different to the goods to be delivered under a contract but are similar and usable when the goods called for are unavailable. Also see cover. … [Read more...]

SUBSTITUTED EXECUTOR

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One appointed to act in the place of another executor upon the happening of a certain event; e. p., if the latter should refuse the office. … [Read more...]

SUBSTITUTED SERVICE

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Service to another person or party who is authorized to receive legal documents on behalf of the named party in the documents. When another form of the delivery of court documents occurs that is substituted for personal service, which is the practice of handing the legal papers directly to the person being served. Examples of substitute service are leaving the documents with an … [Read more...]

SUBSTITUTES

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Scotch law. Where an estate is settled on a long series of heirs, substituted one after another, in tailzie, the person first called in the tailzies, is the institute; the rest, the heirs of tailzie; or the substitutes. … [Read more...]

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