constructive notice:
a fiction that a person got notice even though actual notice was not personally delivered to him/her. The law may provide thata public notice put on the courthouse bulletin board is a substitute for actual notice. A prime example is allowing service bypublication when a spouse has left the state to avoid service (legal delivery of a legal notice) in a divorce action. The legaladvertisement of the summons in an approved newspaper is treated as constructive notice, just as if the summons and petitionhad been served personally.
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