impleadment

plural impleadments

1. countableuncountableThe act of impleading, or the state of being impleaded.

   In the absence of any order that the impleadment of newly added or substituted party shall take effect from the date of institution of a suit, the period of limitation so far as the newly added or substituted shall run from the date of their impleadment in the suit.

   1987, Shriniwas Gupta, The Limitation Act, page 184

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   Of course, a state cannot authorize the impleadment of a corporation on substituted service, except possibly, as to property having a situs in such state, but service on the president of a corporation as he is passing through a state or service on an agent duly appointed to accept service of process is not substituted service.

   1906, The Central Law Journal, volume 62, page 14