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GARNISHMENT Definition & Legal Meaning

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In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whosehands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver tlie propertyof the defendant in bis hands to him, but to appear and answer the plaintiff’s suit.Drake, Attachm.

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