{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:120","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Service on a Member of Defendant’s Family","number":"120","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/120/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE I — SERVICE","chapter":"Chapter 1. — Issue and Service of Summons on Defendant"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where in a suit the defendant cannot be found, and he has no agent authorized to accept service on behalf of him, service may be made on any person of suitable age and discretion who is, at the moment of service, residing with him.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/120/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":84,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/84/?article=120&paragraph=lead#article-120-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}