Crossword clues for garnishment
garnishment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from garnish + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
Garnishment is an American legal order for collecting a monetary judgment on behalf of a plaintiff from a defendant. The money can come directly from the defendant (the debtor) or—at a court's discretion—from a third party (the "garnishee"). Jurisdiction law may allow for collection—without a judgment or other court order—in the case of collecting for taxes.
Usage examples of "garnishment".
Dinners in smart and hollow places, where the chefs put coy signatures of garnishment on uninspired dishes---places chosen by her escorts.
They might also get an open-ended garnishment on him, under which he and his descendants, if any, would pay a stated percentage of their annual income down through the ages until the debt, and the compounding interest thereon, was finally satisfied.