Definition of "process-server" [process-server]

• One who processes or summonses; a sheriff's officer; a bailiff. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts."
• "Rubempre, endorsed to order of Metivier, and finally to our order, matured the thirtieth of April last, protested by Doublon, process-server, on the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.fr. c."
• "Not a sea-port, where some fine morning the Salaminian galley can appear, bringing a process-server along."