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English
Etymology
From implead + -ment.
Noun
impleadment (countable and uncountable, plural impleadments)
- The act of impleading, or the state of being impleaded.
1906, The Central Law Journal, volume 62, page 14: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.
1987, Shriniwas Gupta, The Limitation Act, page 184: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.