Serve

Definition - Transitive Verb
1  : to deliver, publish, or execute (notice or process) as required by law <no notice of any such request was ever served on the husband ­National Law Journal>
2  : to make legal service upon (the person named in a process)
: inform or notify by legal service <unless the city had been served with prior notice of a defect ­Gene Mustain>
3  : to put in (a term of imprisonment) <has served five years of her sentence>



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intrinsic fraud

fraud (as by the use of false or forged documents, false claims, or perjured testimony) that deceives the trier of fact and results in a judgment in favor of the party perpetrating the fraud


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