Do Process: ProcessServicePA – Issue #19
And We Are Back
Greetings all,
I hope you enjoyed the summer! Hard to believe it is back to school time. Pumpkin spice will soon fill the air.
The hurricane has cut my vacation short, so it is back to business for me. I decided to run a repeat of the history/origins of the process server, as I am asked almost every day where this career came from.
If there are topics/requests that you would like to discuss or read about, please feel free to sound off and respond!
As always, I hope to be a continued resource for you, your team, and your case. From Skip-traces to Process Service, please consider Process Service Pa LLC for your legal assistance needs.
Have a productive week!
Blair
The English Origins of “Due Process of Law
“Due process” originated in 1215 with the English Magna Carta, an important provision of which was that no freeman would be deprived of certain rights except “by the judgment of his peers and by the law of the land.” This is our industry’s history. This is where we started.
The idea of due process is the idea that the government has to go through a series of legal procedures before it can take away our “life, liberty, or property.” … Thus, the guarantee of due process is a very important factor in ensuring that we actually have individual rights that are promised to us.
This is why we go, go, go, every day. Because we know this, we believe that every individual we provide with legal documentation of their obligations to the court of law is upheld.
Due process is important for the American legal system because it made sure that citizens and states, after the Fourteenth Amendment, were tried fairly in the court room.
That is our obligation as a process server. That is the standard that we choose to uphold.
We are in many ways completive with each other out in the field. We know when the the system is running slow, when the holidays are hitting hard, and when work tends to lag. We are also friends, teammates, associates of each other. We know the importance of this history and we hold ourselves with a high standard hoping that others will follow in that standard.
While larger companies seem to forget this, we hold it together every day. This should be taught to each other without compensation for understanding. Not everyone can be a process server it truly takes an individual of character, integrity and strength for the things we see.