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Definition of Garnishers
1. garnisher [n] - See also: garnisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garnishers
Literary usage of Garnishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third by Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike (1908)
"The garnishers now appeared, and were examined, and it was found that the tenant
had been warned by them to be at Westminster, on the day mentioned in the ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"Persons owing the debtor money, or having his effects in hand, may be summoned,
and are termed garnishers. These must answer within the first four days of ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"Persons owing the debtor money, or having his effects in hand, may be summoned,
and are termed garnishers. These must answer within the lirst four days of ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"... and Lydgate ; and extols both Gower and Chaucer as the garnishers and refiners
of the rude English tongue ; and Hawes, in his ' Pastime of Pleasure,' ..."
5. London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry B. Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... the first were smiths, forgers of blades, and therefore called binders.
The second were makers of hafts, and otherwise garnishers of blades. ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"There was no traverse by any of the garnishers of these denials. Before a writ
of garnishment can be effective there must be an "indebtedness ..."
7. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third by Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike (1908)
"The garnishers now appeared, and were examined, and it was found that the tenant
had been warned by them to be at Westminster, on the day mentioned in the ..."
8. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"Persons owing the debtor money, or having his effects in hand, may be summoned,
and are termed garnishers. These must answer within the first four days of ..."
9. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"Persons owing the debtor money, or having his effects in hand, may be summoned,
and are termed garnishers. These must answer within the lirst four days of ..."
10. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"... and Lydgate ; and extols both Gower and Chaucer as the garnishers and refiners
of the rude English tongue ; and Hawes, in his ' Pastime of Pleasure,' ..."
11. London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry B. Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... the first were smiths, forgers of blades, and therefore called binders.
The second were makers of hafts, and otherwise garnishers of blades. ..."
12. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"There was no traverse by any of the garnishers of these denials. Before a writ
of garnishment can be effective there must be an "indebtedness ..."
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