West Virginia Code § 56-3-12

Service of summons or scire facias; finality of judgment by default on
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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 otherweise 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 farcias or summons
shall become final within twenty days after the service of such process.

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