A sheriff or other officer may transmit by mail (the postage thereon being prepaid) any process or order which came to his hands from beyond his county, with his return thereon, in an envelope or cover properly addressed to the officer to whom or whose office such return ought to be made; and the receipt taken at the time from the postmaster, his deputy or clerk, certified as aforesaid, shall be evidence that the process or order, and return, were transmitted as aforesaid.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 56. Pleading and Practice
Article 3. Writs, Process and Order of Publication
§56-3-2a. Actions for Breach of Promise to Marry and for Alienation of Affections Prohibited
§56-3-3. Forms of Writs and Other Process
§56-3-4. Issuance of Process; Alteration
§56-3-5. To Whom Process Directed; Return of Process; Return of Summons for Witness
§56-3-7. Officer's Receipt of Process
§56-3-8. Proof of Mailing Process to Officer
§56-3-9. Service in Other County; Return
§56-3-10. Clerk's Receipt of Process Sent by Mail; Postage Due
§56-3-13. Service of Process or Notice on Domestic Corporations
§56-3-14. Service of Process or Notice on Foreign Corporations
§56-3-15. Service of Process or Notice on Common Carriers Other Than Corporations
§56-3-16. Execution of Process on Sunday
§56-3-17. Where Process May Be Executed
§56-3-18. When Officer May Summon Assistance; Failure to Assist
§56-3-19. Officer's Service and Return of Process; Failure to Make Proper Return; False Return
§56-3-20. Further Liability for Failure to Make Proper Return
§56-3-22. Judgment on Return Nihil
§56-3-23. Service by Publication Generally
§56-3-24. Contents of Order of Publication; Publishing
§56-3-25. Failure to Appear in Response to Publication; Trial or Hearing
§56-3-26. Rehearing in Case of Nonpersonal Service
§56-3-27. Order of Publication in Supreme Court of Appeals
§56-3-28. Requisites of Publication in Supreme Court of Appeals
§56-3-29. Rehearing in Supreme Court of Appeals