Where no appearance has been entered to a summons for a defendant who is an infant or a person of unsound mind not so formally found, the claimant shall, before taking further steps in the proceeding against the defendant, apply to the Master for an order that some proper person be assigned guardian of such defendant, by whom he may appear and defend the proceeding.<\/p>\n
No such order shall be made unless it appears on the hearing of such application that the summons was duly served and that notice of such application was, after the expiration of the time allowed for appearance and at least six days before the date of hearing, served on or left at the dwelling house of the person under whose care such defendant was at the time of serving such summons or in the case of an infant not residing or being under the care of a parent or guardian, served on or left at the dwelling house of the father or guardian, if any of such infant, unless this requirement is dispensed with by the Master on foot of an application in this regard.<\/p>\n\n
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Appearance The entry of\u00a0 appearance brings the defendant into the proceedings The failure to enter an appearance means \u00a0that there may be a judgment against the defendant by \u00a0default. An entry of appearance to a summons must be made within eight days of service of the summons.A longer time\u00a0 is allowed for an appearance in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}