Brewer's: Substitution of Service

(The), in Ireland. Instead of serving a process personally, the name of the defaulter was posted on the walls of a Catholic chapel in the parish or barony, or in some other public place.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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