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garnishment|ˈgɑːnɪʃmənt|
[f. garnish v. + -ment. Cf. MDu. garnissement, perh. from an unrecorded OFr. word.]
1. Adornment, decoration.
1550in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. xxix. 238 All manner of garnishments and apparel of silver and gold, such as altar-cloths, copes, &c. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. A ij b, Surely for the garnishment of phrase and style thereof I have no great regard. 1632Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) III. 132 A garnishment of silver of gouldsmythes worck. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. ix. 91 Third persons, riff-raff and others, standing in the chambers for a garnishment. 1824Scott St. Ronan's x, The art of making the worse appear the better garnishment.
2. Law. A legal notice or warning, either general, or for the special purposes of (a) summoning a third party to appear in a suit, (b) attaching money in the hands of an heir or other person.
1585Act 27 Eliz. c. 3 §3 If the Heir do not..upon a Garnishment..shew..that the Executors have sufficient..to answer..the same Debt. 1621Bolton Stat. Irel. 41 (Act 7 Edw. IV) The Lieutenant of this land..shall have power to remove the Exchequer..by the garnishment of twentie and eight dayes. 1668Hale Pref. to Rolle's Abridgm. 5 Garnishment and Interpleder were large titles at Common Law, but now much out of use. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Garnishment, a Warning given to any for his Appearance, for the better clearing of the Cause, and informing of the Court. 1873Kent's Comm. II. xl. 568 In which, by the process of garnishment, the rival claimant is brought into the suit. |