service

This term has a variety of meanings, dependent upon the context or the sense in which used. Central Power & Light Co. v. State, Tex.Civ.App., 165 S.W.2d 920, 925.

Contracts.

Duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another, the former being bound to submit his will to the direction and control of the latter. The act of serving the labor performed or the duties required. Occupation, condition, or status of a servant, etc. Performance of labor for benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, etc. Claxton v. Johnson County, 194 Ga. 43, 20 S.E.2d 606, 610.

"Service" and "employment" generally imply that the employer, or person to whom the service is due, both selects and compensates the employee, or person rendering the service. The term is used also for employment in one of the offices, departments, or agencies of the government; as in the phrases "civil service," "public service," "military service," etc. Domestic relations. The "services" of a wife, for the loss of which occasioned by an injury to the wife, the husband may recover in an action against the tort-feasor include whatever of aid, assistance, comfort, and society the wife would be expected to render to bestow upon her husband in the circumstances in which they were situated.

See consortium.

Feudal law.

The consideration which the feudal tenants were bound to render to the lord in recompense for the lands they held of him. The services, in respect of their quality, were either free or base services, and, in respect of their quantity and the time of exacting them, were either certain or uncertain. 2 Bl.Comm. 60.

Practice.

The exhibition or delivery of a writ, summons and complaint, criminal summons, notice, order, etc., by an authorized person, to a person who is thereby officially notified of some action or proceeding in which he is concerned, and is thereby advised or warned of some action or step which he is commanded to take or to forbear. Fed.R.Civil Proc. 4 and 5; Fed.R.Crim.P. 4 and 49.

Pleadings, motions, orders, etc., after the initial summons are normally served on the party's attorney unless otherwise ordered by court.

See service of process, below.

General Classification

- civil service

@ public utilities

The furnishing of water, heat, light and power, etc., services by utility. Claxton v. Johnson County, 194 Ga. 43, 20 S.E.2d 606, 610

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- salvage service (See also salvage)

@ secular service

Worldly employment or service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical

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