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Definition of Garnishee
1. Verb. Take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support. "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt"
Generic synonyms: Attach, Confiscate, Impound, Seize, Sequester
Derivative terms: Garnishment
2. Noun. A wage earner who is served with a garnishment.
Definition of Garnishee
1. n. One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
2. v. t. To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.
Definition of Garnishee
1. Noun. (legal) the person whose money is garnished ¹
2. Verb. (transitive legal) the act of attaching the property sought to be secured. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Garnishee
1. [v -NISHEED, -NISHEEING, -NISHEES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garnishee
Literary usage of Garnishee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"It is the better practice to postpone the trial of the issue formed by a traverse
to a garnishee's answer until after judgment has been obtained against the ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Not Evidence in Behalf of garnishee. — It has been held in Alabama that the ...
In Missouri, on the other hand, if the truth of the garnishee's answer is ..."
3. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in ...by Curtis Hillyer by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"Order for garnishee to deliver property — Docket order — Form. ... Order that
garnishee pay costs or show cause — Docket entry — Form. § 2610. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States by Charles Daniel Drake (1891)
"IN most of the States, the manner in which a garnishee responds to the ...
This answer must be made by the garnishee in person; the power to make it under ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Non-residents and Foreign Corporations as by Conrad Reno (1892)
"C., RI & P. I?y, 43 Iowa, 385, holds the contrary view, namely, that service of
process upon a garnishee gives jurisdiction over a debt due to a ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"It is the better practice to postpone the trial of the issue formed by a traverse
to a garnishee's answer until after judgment has been obtained against the ..."
7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Not Evidence in Behalf of garnishee. — It has been held in Alabama that the ...
In Missouri, on the other hand, if the truth of the garnishee's answer is ..."
8. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in ...by Curtis Hillyer by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"Order for garnishee to deliver property — Docket order — Form. ... Order that
garnishee pay costs or show cause — Docket entry — Form. § 2610. ..."
9. A Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States by Charles Daniel Drake (1891)
"IN most of the States, the manner in which a garnishee responds to the ...
This answer must be made by the garnishee in person; the power to make it under ..."
10. A Treatise on the Law of Non-residents and Foreign Corporations as by Conrad Reno (1892)
"C., RI & P. I?y, 43 Iowa, 385, holds the contrary view, namely, that service of
process upon a garnishee gives jurisdiction over a debt due to a ..."
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