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Service where no person is in possession.
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57. In case there shall be no person in the actual possession of the premises as tenant or under-tenant on whom service of such . . . civil bill process in ejectment can be effected, it shall be lawful instead thereof to affix a copy of such . . . civil bill process on some conspicuous part of the premises, and also on the usual place for affixing notices in the nearest market town to the said lands: Provided, however, that in such case, before any decree or judgment by default shall be given, the court shall be satisfied that there was no person in actual possession on whom other service might have been effected: Provided also, that in case of an ejectment for nonpayment of rent reserved upon any lease of tithes, tithe rentcharge, or other ecclesiastical dues, the court in which the ejectment is brought may order service to be made by posting the ejectment upon the church door of the parish or union of parishes wherein such tithe, tithe rentcharge, or ecclesiastical dues are payable, and, if there be no such church in the parish, or union of parishes, upon some public and conspicuous place in the said parish or union.
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