PROCESS IN ACTIONS AGAINST NON-RESIDENTS DOING BUSINESS WITHIN A STATE

Authors

Maurice S. Culp, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Many state legislatures have undertaken to subject non-resident persons or unincorporated groups, or both, to the power of their local courts in relation to business transacted within their limits. No less than forty States have at one time or another enacted statutes providing for substituted service of process in actions arising out of such transactions. Most of these statutes apply to non-residents generally; but in eighteen States statutes, now or formerly in force, have provided in express terms for substituted service on non-resident partnerships or unincorporated associations. Both types alike provide that service may be made upon an actual agent of the non-resident or upon a statutory agent who may or may not have the duty of giving notice of such service to his principal.

Recommended Citation

Maurice S. Culp, PROCESS IN ACTIONS AGAINST NON-RESIDENTS DOING BUSINESS WITHIN A STATE, 32 Mich. L. Rev. 909 (1934).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol32/iss7/3