Garnishment

Garnishment
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in law, means of requiring a third party who holds a debt (including wages) due a defendant to retain the property temporarily.

Garnishment of Wages: Taking or seizing the amount owing pursuant to a child support order or other order, directly from the employee's wages; a proceeding whereby a debtor's money, or other property, ...

Garnishment
(n) Garnishment is the process of getting a court order directing a person or entity to withhold the funds, or the payments due to another person or entity against whom a legal claim is pending for disposal.
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Garnishment: A proceeding whereby a debtor's money, or other property, which is under the control of another is given to a third person to whom the debtor owes a debt. In family law this often applies to child support or alimony.

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.

Garnishment - A legal proceeding in which a debtor's money, in the possession of another (called the garnishee) is applied to the debts of the debtor, such as when an employer garnishes a debtor's wages.

garnishment - a remedial device used by a creditor to have property of the debtor or money owed to the debtor that is in the possession of a third party attached to pay the debt to the creditor.
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garnishment
n. the entire process of petitioning for and getting a court order directing a person or entity (garnishee) to hold funds they owe to someone who allegedly is in debt to another person, often after a judgment has been rendered.

Garnishment: A legal proceeding in which a creditor seeks to obtain payment from a debtor out of money, salary, or property of the debtor. The procedure takes place after a judgment against the debtor has already been handed down.

GARNISHMENT. A warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court, and explaining a cause.

garnishment: like attachment, a device used to bring property in the form of a debt under the court's jurisdiction. It is also used to collect unpaid judgments and other obligations, for example, by taking money out of the debtor's paycheck.
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garnishment - A proceeding whereby a plaintiff creditor, i.e., garnishor, seeks to subject to his or her claim the property or money of a third party, i.e., garnishee, owed by such party to defendant debtor, i.e., principal defendant.

Garnishment: A court order to collect money or property. For example, a garnishment may be issued to an employer to pay part of an employee's wages to someone else to pay a debt or judgment.

GARNISHMENT: Also known as wage execution. A court-ordered method of debt collection in which a portion of a person's salary is paid to a creditor. Often used to collect child support payments.

garnishment - A court order to take part of a person's wages, before he gets them, and apply the amount taken to pay a debt owed to a creditor.

garnishment: A legal process that allows part of a person's wages and/or assets to be withheld for payment of a debt. Wage or income garnishment is usually involuntary. (See also direct income withholding, income withholding, wage withholding.

Garnishment:
Process in which money or goods in the hands of a third person which are due a defendant, are attached by the plaintiff; e.g.

Writ of garnishment - An order of the court whereby property, money, or credits int he possession of another person may be seized and applied to pay a debtor's debt.

garnishment
A court-ordered process that takes property from a person to satisfy a debt. For example, a person who owes money to a creditor may have her wages garnished if she loses a lawsuit filed by the creditor.

Writ Of Garnishment
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garnish, garnishment A statutory procedure for the enforcement of a judgment for the payment of money by obtaining (garnishing) the defendant's wages, bank accounts, or similar property held in the possession of a third party, such as an employer, ...

Writ of Garnishment A writ ordering a person who owes a judgment debtor money to pay the judgment creditor instead. When a party wins a judgment for money damages against another who is owed money by a third person (e.g.

See also: garnishee garnishment
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Expanded Legal Definition of En Ventre Sa MereGarnishment 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.

In this action the defendant frequently prayed garnishment of a third person, whom he alleged owned or had an interest in the thing demanded; but this he could not do without confessing the possession of the thing demanded, ...

GarnishmentA process whereby a person who has a court order for payment can demand money owed to a debtor by someone else. Most often, people garnish wages or bank accounts.

Definition - Noun
: a creditor who brings a garnishment proceeding against a garnishee
Pronunciation'gär-ni-sh&r, -"sho'r
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gɪdÊ' \ "Mortgage" or "Lien" includes deed of trust, vendor 's lien, chattel mortgage, mechanic 's, materialman 's or laborer 's lien, judgment, attachment or garnishment lien, pledge by hypothecation, and Federal or State tax liens. (CHAPTER I, Sec.

Writ
The means by which a court compels acts to be performed, including such documents as an arrest warrant, garnishment and writs of attachment.
Writ of Assistance
A writ issued by a court in order to enforce its judgment or decree.

Examples include procedures or applications made which are to assist a case in preparing its case or of executing judgment once obtained (eg. garnishment or judicial sale).

Term: Writ
Definition: The means by which a court compels acts to be performed, including such documents as an arrest warrant, garnishment and writs of attachment.

garnishment or judicial sale). These decisions intervene after the start of a suit and decide some issue other than the final decision itself.

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