§ 9-18-4. Service and return of notice.
The officer or other person charged with the service of the notification shall serve the notification by reading it to the party to be cited, if to be found; and if not to be found, by leaving a copy thereof at his or her usual place of abode; and shall, in his or her return, state the manner and time of the service; and whenever the service shall be made by any person other than a sworn officer, he or she shall verify the return, under oath, before some officer authorized to administer oaths.
History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 377; G.L. 1909, ch. 292, § 25; G.L. 1923, ch. 342, § 25; G.L. 1938, ch. 539, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 9-18-4.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure – Procedure Generally
Section 9-18-1. - Officials authorized to take depositions.
Section 9-18-2. - Notice to adverse party.
Section 9-18-3. - Address and time of service of notice.
Section 9-18-4. - Service and return of notice.
Section 9-18-5. - Manner of taking depositions outside state for use in state.
Section 9-18-6. - Oath of deponent — Reduction of deposition to writing.
Section 9-18-7. - Sealing and delivery to court.
Section 9-18-8. - Deposition as evidence — Use of certified copy.
Section 9-18-9. - Court grant of commission to take deposition.
Section 9-18-10. - Time of taking deposition.
Section 9-18-11. - Depositions for use in foreign tribunals.
Section 9-18-13. - Manner of taking deposition in perpetual memory.
Section 9-18-14. - Delivery and recording of deposition in perpetual memory.
Section 9-18-15. - Admissibility of deposition taken to perpetuate testimony.