Service made by an officer of Court, of a writ requiring appearance. In actions, fourteen days must elapse between the citation, when given personally or at the dwelling-house, and the day for entering appearance. This period is called the inducise. When the party to be cited is abroad, he must be cited edictally, i.e., by notice in a register kept for the purpose and published periodically, called the Register of Edictal Citations. No judge's order is required for this, and on the elapse of the induciae, which in this case are twenty-one days, the case proceeds as if personal service had been effected.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 350.