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2. Service of process - Wikipedia

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   In the U.S. legal system, service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to force that person to respond to the proceeding in a court, body, or other tribunal.

3. Sworn declaration - Wikipedia

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   Where allowed, such an endorsement gives the document the same weight as an affidavit, per 28 U.S.C. § 1746 [2] The document is called a sworn declaration or sworn statement instead of an affidavit, and the maker is called a "declarant" rather than an "affiant", but other than this difference in terminology, the two are treated identically by ...

4. Affidavit - Wikipedia

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   Vasil Levski's affidavit, 16 June 1872, Bucharest, Romania. An affidavit (/ ˌ æ f ɪ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ t / ⓘ AF-ih-DAY-vit; Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law.

5. Pitchess motion - Wikipedia

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   Superior Court, Sheriff Pitchess and his administrative staff are the case's petitioners, and the Superior Court is the respondent, with César Echeverría as the real party in interest. The petition was unusual, as it came directly from the county sheriff and so the Court of Appeals readily agreed to hear the petition. [2]: p.45

6. Superior court - Wikipedia

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   In common law systems, a superior court is a court of general jurisdiction over civil and criminal legal cases.A superior court is "superior" in relation to a court with limited jurisdiction (see small claims court), which is restricted to civil cases involving monetary amounts with a specific limit, or criminal cases involving offenses of a less serious nature.

7. Motion (legal) - Wikipedia

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   A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...