{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:121","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Defendant Who Cannot be Found","number":"121","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/121/","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 the serving officer, after using all due and reasonable diligence, cannot find the defendant, and there is no agent empowered to accept service, nor any other person on whom service can be made, the serving officer or person shall return the summons to the court from which it was issued, together with an affidavit as to the facts which prevented him from serving the summons. The provisions of this Chapter concerning substituted service shall apply.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/121/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":84,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/84/?article=121&paragraph=lead#article-121-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."}