§56-3-12 Service of summons or scire facias; finality of judgment by default on scire facias or summons. - West Virginia Statutes

§56-3-12. Service of summons or scire facias; finality of judgment by default on scire facias or summons.
Any summons or scire facias against any person, including a summons for a witness, may be served as a notice is served under section one, article two of this chapter, except that when such process is against a corporation the mode of service shall be as prescribed by the two following sections. To this end the clerk issuing such process, unless otherwise directed, shall deliver or transmit therewith as many copies thereof as there are persons named therein on whom it is to be served. No judgment by default on a scire facias or summons shall become final within twenty days after the service of such process.