Hall v. Young L. G. Harris College

“Process is a mandatory precept, issuing from a court. The mandate is set forth in the body of the instrument, which we call a process, and this may be printed or written out by any scrivener, but it is the signature of the proper officer which gives it efficacy. [Italics ours.] From the instrument itself, the person to whom it is addressed, or who is to be affected by it, learns what is required of him; from the official signature ho learns that it emanates from a court authorized so to command him. The mandate, without the authenticating signature, is no more ‘process" than would be the…