R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-15-26: Notice by commissioners nonresidents and to absent or unknown parties.

In case nonresident, absent, or unknown parties or persons are interested in the partition, the court issuing the partition shall order such notice to be given to the parties or persons interested, by the commissioners appointed to make partition, as the court shall judge proper, and the notice, when given, shall for all purposes be as effectual as personal notice.