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Service of process on relative or servant of defendant cut-side his dwelling house.
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67. If the wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister, or other relative of the defendant in any civil bill process, or of his wife, or any servant of the defendant, who respectively usually resides with the said defendant, shall be outside the dwelling house or place of residence of the defendant, but within reasonable distance, it shall and may be lawful for the process officer to deliver to the said wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister, or other relative of the said defendant, or of his wife, being of the age of sixteen years or upwards, so usually residing with the said defendant, or to such servant of the said defendant, a copy of the said process for the said defendant, outside the dwelling house or place of residence of the said defendant, and within such distance as aforesaid from the same; and such service of process shall be deemed as good and effectual to all intents and purposes as if service on any of said parties of said copy of said process had been effected within the said dwelling house or place of residence: Provided always, that at the time of such service personal service on the defendant, or service on any person within such dwelling house, lodging, or place of residence, could not have been effected.
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