re-serve

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re-serve (third-person singular simple present re-serves, present participle re-serving, simple past and past participle re-served)

  1. (transitive, law) To deliver a document again.
    • 2016 December 16, Anne J. Greer, Matter of W-A-F-C-, Respondent[1], Board of Immigration Appeals, 26 I&N Dec. 880, archived from the original on June 24, 2021, page 880:
      Where the Department of Homeland Security seeks to re-serve a respondent to effect proper service of a notice to appear that was defective under the regulatory requirements for serving minors under the age of 14, a continuance should be granted for that purpose.