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GARNISHEE Definition & Legal Meaning

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One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment isIssued; one who has money or property In his possession belonging to a defendant, orwho owes the defendant a debt, which money, property, or debt is attached iu bishands, with notice to him not to deliver or pay it over until the result of the suit beascertained. Welsh v. Blackwell. 14 N. J. Law, 348; Smith v. Miln, 22 Fed. Cas. 000.

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