Legal Definition and Related Resources of Serve

(Assist), verb

• accommodate
• administer to
• advance
• afford aid
• aid
• assist
• attend
• be of use
• care for
• come to the aid of
• commodore
• comply
• confer a benefit
• contribute to
• cooperate
• deservire
• discharge one’s duty
• do a service
• do one’s bidding
• fill an office
• forward
• furnish aid
• furnish assistance
• give help
• help
• lend aid
• minister to
• promote
• render help
• servire
• submit
• succor
• supply aid
• take care of
• tend
• wait on
• work for

(Deliver a legal instrument), verb

• afford notice
• deliver
• deliver a summons and complaint
• deliver over
• forward
• give notice to
• hand over
• issue
• make delivery of legal process
• present
• subpoena
• summon
• turn over Associated Concepts: serve with process

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Translate Serve from English to Spanish

Translation of Serve , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Entregar personalmente and other legal terms is available here.

• Entregar personalmente
• Presentar
• Legal English Translation

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English Spanish Translation of Serve

To serve a notice: Notificar

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Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Serve

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late 12c., “to render habitual obedience to,” also “minister, give aid, give help,” from Old French servir “to do duty toward, show devotion to; set table, serve at table; offer, provide with,” from Latin servire “be a servant, be in service, be enslaved;” figuratively “be devoted; be governed by; comply with; conform; flatter,” originally “be a slave,” related to servus “slave,” perhaps from Etruscan (compare Etruscan proper names Servi, Serve, Latinized as Servius). By c. 1200 also as “to be in the service of, perform a service for; attend upon, be personal servant to; be a slave; owe allegiance to; officiate at Mass or other religious rites;” from early 13c. as “set food at table;” mid-14c. as “to wait on (customers).” From late 14c. as “treat (someone or something) in some fashion.” To serve (someone) right “to treat as he deserves” is recorded from 1580s. He no schuld neuer wond To seruen him fro fot to hond [”Amis and Amiloun,” c. 1330] Sense of “be useful, be beneficial, be suitable for a purpose or function” is from early 14c.; that of “take the place or meet the needs of, be equal to the task” is from late 14c.; that of “suffice” is from mid-15c. Meaning “render active military service” is from 1510s. Sporting sense, in tennis, badminton, etc., first recorded 1580s. Legal sense “present” (a writ, warrant,etc.), “give legal notice of” is from early 15c.