Legal process

{{Short description|Any formal notice or writ by a court obtaining jurisdiction over a person or proper}}

{{For|the American law movement|Legal process (jurisprudence)}}

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Legal process (sometimes simply process) is any formal notice or writ by a court obtaining jurisdiction over a person or property.{{Cite book

| last = Walker

| first = David

| author-link =

| title = Oxford Companion to Law

| place =

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| year = 1980

| volume =

| edition =

| page = [https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000walk/page/1003 1003]

| url = https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000walk

| url-access = registration

| doi =

| id =

| isbn =0-19-866110-X }} Common forms of process include a summons, subpoena, mandate, and warrant.{{cite book

| last =Black

| first = Henry C.

| authorlink =

| title = Black's Law Dictionary

| url =https://archive.org/details/blackslawdiction00blac_1

| url-access =registration

| publisher = West Publishing

| location = St. Paul, Mn.

| date = 1990

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/blackslawdiction00blac_1/page/1205 1205]

| doi =

| isbn = 0-314-76271-X}} Process normally takes effect by serving it on a person, arresting a person, posting it on real property, or seizing personal property.