Crossword clues for garnishee
garnishee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garnishee \Gar`nish*ee"\, n. (Law) 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.
Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order.
Garnishee \Gar`nish*ee"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Garnisheed (-[=e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnisheeing.] (Law)
To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.
To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from garnish (v.) + -ee.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) the person whose money is garnished vb. (context transitive legal English) the act of attaching the property sought to be secured.
WordNet
v. take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt" [syn: garnish]
Usage examples of "garnishee".
Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau's garnishee file.
Branch’s wages were being garnisheed, and at the time of Stevie’s murder, the state of Arkansas was also after him to collect some back taxes.
He seized up the oxyhydrogen torch, lit it to flaring life and dived to the attack toward the Garnishee who were crowding into the cabin.