0 someone who has an amount taken from their wages (= money paid to an employee every week) or bank account through a legal process, in order to pay back money they owe: --
1 to take an amount from someone's wages (= money paid to an employee every week) or bank account through a legal process, in order to pay back money they owe: --
2 a company, person, etc. who is ordered by a court to garnish part of someone's income or property in order to pay a debt --
3 → garnish --
One can garnishee his bank balance or his trade creditors and his goods and chattels can be taken by distress.
A garnishee application can only seek to attach, at most, the amount in judgment.
A little later on he explained once again the garnishee and charging orders machinery.
Two of those go by the names of a garnishee order and a charging order.
A liability order can lead to distress action or to a garnishee or charging order.
There are also plans to look at ways of simplifying and improving the garnishee and charging order procedures later this year.
Then, of course, one has the changes in garnishee procedure.
It is vital to ensure that the court system works effectively and that garnishee orders and measures such as attachment of earnings work effectively.
