Sewer service
Encyclopedia
Sewer service is an epithet
for the intentional failure to provide service of process
on a named party in a lawsuit
, in order to prevent the party
from having a chance to respond.
The phrase refers to the figure of speech
of throwing the documents into a sewer
.
Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...
for the intentional failure to provide service of process
Service of process
Service of process is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person of a court or administrative body's exercise of its jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body or other tribunal...
on a named party in a lawsuit
Lawsuit
A lawsuit or "suit in law" is a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy. The defendant is required to respond to the plaintiff's complaint...
, in order to prevent the party
Party (law)
A party is a person or group of persons that compose a single entity which can be identified as one for the purposes of the law. Parties include: plaintiff , defendant , petitioner , respondent , cross-complainant A party is a person or group of persons that compose a single entity which can be...
from having a chance to respond.
The phrase refers to the figure of speech
Figure of speech
A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile,...
of throwing the documents into a sewer
Sewer
Sewer may refer to:* Part of sewerage, the infrastructure that conveys sewage*Effluent sewer, a collection system that transports only the liquid portion of wastewater through small-diameter pipes laid at contour...
.
Further reading
(72 Colum. L. Rev. 847)- Press Release:
- Shaun Ertischek, Esq. Debt Collection Through Sewer Service, 31 July 2010. URL : www.lupoloverlaw.com. Accessed: 31 July 2010. (Archived here by WebCite)