Garnish - Law Dictionary Search Results
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garnish [Anglo-French garniss-, stem of garnir to garnish, give legal summons, warn, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German warnōn to take heed] 1 : to subject (property or money) to garnishment 2 : to seek satisfaction of (a debt) through garnishment compare attach, levy ...
garnishment
garnishment : a remedial device used by a creditor to have property of the debtor or money owed to the debtor that is in the possession of a third party attached to pay the debt to the creditor ;specif : attachment of the debtor's wages to satisfy a judgment compare wage assignment at assignment ...
garnishment of wages
garnishment of wages Taking or seizing the amount owing pursuant to a child support order or other order, directly from the employee's wages ...
writ of garnishment
writ of garnishment a means of enforcing a judgment in which the defendant's property (e.g., a bank account, wages, or any debt owed to the defendant by someone else) is to be seized and is in the hands of a third person . Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Garnisher
One who or that which garnishes...
Garnish
Garnish, to warn; see 27 Eliz. c. 3. Also money paid (illegally) by a prisoner on his going to prison. Also to attach a debt. See next title.To serve an heir with notice of contain debts that must be paid before person is entitled to receive property as an heir, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 689....
Garnishment
Garnishment, warning or notice, as not to pay money, etc., see previous title....
garnishee
garnishee : a third party holding garnished property or money of a debtor vt -eed -ee·ing : garnish ...
Garnishee
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...
assignment
assignment 1 : the act of assigning 2 a : a position, post, or office to which one is assigned b : a task assigned 3 : a present transfer of property or rights absolute assignment : an assignment in which the transfer is complete and leaves the assignor with no interest in the property or right transferred assignment for the benefit of creditors : assignment of property by a debtor to an assignee to be held in trust and used to pay off the debtor's debts assignment of income : an assignment by one taxpayer to another of income for the purpose of avoiding taxes assignment of lease : an assignment by a tenant of all of his or her remaining rights in a property under a lease compare sublease effective assignment : an assignment by which the assignor's interest in the property or right being assigned is terminated and transferred to the assignee equitable assignment : an assignment (as of property in which one has a future interest) that is not valid at law but that would be u...
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