Crossword-Solution: GARNISHEE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Garnishee | 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. |
| Garnishee | v. t. | To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. |
| Garnishee | v. t. | To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee. |
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| Collector of impounded wages | 1 answer |
| person upon whom a notice of warning has been served | 1 answer |
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Sentences with GARNISHEE (5)
Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process.
This order binds the debts in the hands of the garnishee, and if he does not dispute his liability execution issues against him at once.
Payment by the garnishee or execution against him is a complete discharge as against the judgment debtor.
The plaintiff having commenced his action, and made a satisfactory affidavit of his debt, is entitled to issue attachment, which thereupon affects all the money or property of the defendant in the hands of the third party, the garnishee.
The garnishee, of course, has as against the attachment all the defences which would be available to him against the defendant, his alleged creditor.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).