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 agent of the person being served, with an adult living in that person’s home or by nail and mail which is pasting them on the door of the person to be served and sending a follow up copy by mail.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
In English practice. Service of process made under authorization of the court upon some other person, when the person who should he served cannot be found or cannot be reached. In American law. Service of process upon a defendant in any manner, authorized by statute, other than personal service within the jurisdiction; as by publication, by mailing a copy to his last known address, or by personal service in another state.