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Service of process.
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65. Service of any civil bill process on the defendant shall be effected, either by personal service of the civil bill process, or by leaving a copy thereof at the defendant’s house or place of residence, or at his office, warehouse, counting-house, shop, factory, or place of business, with the wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister, or any other relation of the defendant, or his wife, or with any servant or clerk of the defendant, (the person with whom such copy shall be left being of the age of sixteen years or upwards). . . ; and no decree, other than a decree in ejectment or replevin, shall be made by any assistant barrister unless the process in such cause shall, by the oath of the process officer in open court before the said assistant barrister, or by the production of the books of the process officer in the cases herein-before provided, be satisfactorily proved to have been duly served, and unless it shall be proved that the house or place of residence in which the defendant, or, in the case of more than one defendant, in which one of the defendants, shall at the time of such service have usually resided, or that the office, warehouse, counting-house, shop, factory, or place of business of the defendant or one of the defendants is situate within such division of the county where the said court is held at which the said defendant or the said defendants shall be required to appear.
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