Word: huissier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...Through a huissier, a process server, an official notification of the divorce proceedings is presented at the domicile of the defendant. In the usual American case he is asked return to the wife, and it is this written refusal which constitutes the injure grave, or grave insult upon which the later action is taken. This is legally termed "refus de reintegrer le domicile conjugal," or a refusal to return to the conjugal domicile...