'Garnishment' definitions:

Definition of 'garnishment'

(from WordNet)
noun
A court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee

Definition of 'Garnishment'

From: GCIDE
  • Garnishment \Gar"nish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.]
  • 1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Law) (a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. (b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A fee. See Garnish, n., 4. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'garnishment'

From: GCIDE
  • Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. [1913 Webster]
  • Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'garnishment'

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