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Show Little Chats on Public Notice S7.RVICE BY PUBLICATION It is a longstanding principle of English and American law that a person has an Inherent right to be notified of a proposed propos-ed action that affects him or his proHrty. The same principle applies ap-plies to groups within the community, com-munity, to corporations or businesses, busi-nesses, or to agencies whether public or private. There is a dual purpose behind this well established legal principle. prin-ciple. One is to give due notice to the individual about some proposed pro-posed action that may affect his rights. The other Is to give him reasonably ample opKrtunity to do something about it if he desires. de-sires. The simplest way of giving legal notice is by what is known as personal service. This is where a court attache or a deputy sheriff, sher-iff, for example, personally hands the adverse (opposite! party the notice of an action against him, as in a law suit. Sometimes this is also done by registered letter. Where a proposed legal action Is of more general interest, such notice may be given by other means. One of the older methods is to post such a notice in a public place as in a city hall, the courthouse, on the town common or even, many years ago, on the doors of a church. , But as population grew and life became more complex a more effective means was needed, so the law provided for such notices no-tices to be given through bona fide newspapers. This is because newspaper reading is a well fixed fix-ed habit and because such newspapers news-papers have a wide following. So service by publication in newspapers news-papers is now a well established practice provided by law. |