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serve
serve vt served, serv·ing
1: to deliver, publish, or execute (notice or process) as required by law
no notice of any such request was ever served on the husbandNational Law Journal
2: to make legal service upon (the person named in a process): inform or notify by legal service
unless the city had been served with prior notice of a defect — Gene Mustain
3: to put in (a term of imprisonment)
has served five years of her sentence

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.