Garnishment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
garnishment
n.
decoration and adornment of food; legal confiscation of property or funds
Garnishment
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
garnishee) or—at a court's discretion—from a third party. Jurisdiction law may allow for collection—without a judgment or other court order—in the case of collecting for taxes.
garnishment
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) court order
(derivation) garnishee, garnish
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Garnishment
(n.)
Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
(n.)
Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.
(n.)
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
(n.)
A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Garnishment
The seizing of a person's property, credit or salary, on the basis of a law which allows it, and for the purposes of paying off a debt. - (
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