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A [[process agent]] is a business located [[England and Wales|England or Wales]] (or, in theory, adjacent territorial waters) which accepts service of legal proceedings filed in English courts on behalf of a person who has no place of business in England or Wales.
A [[process agent]] is a business located [[England and Wales|England or Wales]] (or, in theory, adjacent territorial waters) which accepts service of legal proceedings filed in English courts on behalf of a person who has no place of business in England or Wales.
It would be kind of cool to set up a process agency business on a barge moored in the Bristol Channel, just to make service on that process agent as hard as is humanly possible, and potentially impossible if a great storm blew in from the Atlantic on the last day of the statute of limitations.  Would make a great play. Actually, now you mention it - [[The ISDA Protocol]].


===New York===
===New York===