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