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The judgment or order should be served on the party personally, except in the following cases : (1) prohibitive orders, the drawing up of which is not completed : (2) orders embodying an undertaking to do an act by a named day; (3) the orders to answer interrogatories or for discovery or inspection of documents; (4) where an order for substituted service has been made : (5) where the respondent has evaded service of the order ....

In order to justify committal for breach of a prohibitive order it is not necessary that the order should have been served upon the party against whom it has been granted, if it be proved that he had notice of the order aliunde, as by telegram, or newspaper, report, or otherwise, and knew that it was intended to be enforced, or if he consented to the order, or if he was present in Court when the order was pronounced, or when the motion was made, although he left before the order was pronounced.