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garnishee

Legal Definition of garnishee

Verb

To secure by garnishment (any debt or property, in the hands of a third person, which is due or belonging to the defendant in attachment)
To warn (a person) by garnishment

Noun

A person warned not to pay or deliver money or effects to a defendant, pending a judgment of a court.

Definition of garnishee

Etymology

garnish

warnjan

garnir

Noun

garnishee (plural garnishees)

(law) the person whose money is garnished

Verb

garnishee (third-person singular simple present garnishees, present participle garnisheeing, simple past and past participle garnisheed)

(transitive, law) the act of attaching the property sought to be secured.

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