garnisheen.
/ɡɑːnɪˈʃiː/ Law.
One in whose hands money belonging to a debtor or defendant is attached at the suit of the creditor or plaintiff.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > attachment of money via garnishee > garnishee
garnishee1627
factor1858
1627 H. Finch Law (1636) 373 If they were deliuered vpon other condition then the defendant alledgeth, the garnishee is at no mischiefe but the defendant.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Garnishee.
1853 T. I. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylvania 171 Quære, how is the law when the jury find specific articles in the hands of the garnishee.
1890 Essex Chron. 17 Jan. His Honour found for..the garnishee.
Compounds
General attributive.
garnishee issue n.
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1882 Standard 4 Feb. 2/4 The case came before Mr. Justice Watkin Williams..on a garnishee issue.
garnishee order n.
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1881 Daily News 17 Jan. 3/6 The plaintiff..had priority over the holders of the garnishee orders.
garnishee proceedings n.
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1894 Times 13 Nov. 13/8 This was an appeal from an order made..in certain garnishee proceedings.
garnishee summons n.
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1888 West Briton & Cornwall Advert. 22 Mar. 7/2 A Garnishee Case..A. J., grocer, was sued on a garnishee summons..to show cause why he should not pay..£15.
Derivatives
garniˈshee v. to attach or arrest a debtor's money in this way.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > seize for debt > arrest money via garnishee
garnishee1892
1892 Daily News 22 July 7/1 Their salary was recently garnisheed by a person to whom they owed commission.
garniˈsheement n. the process of attaching or arresting (cf. garnishment n.).
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > attachment of money via garnishee
garnisheement1896
1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 15 Dec. 9 Employes who may have their wages garnisheed for debt have..to show..that they are being unjustly dealt with in the garnisheement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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