Garnishee. In English law, to garnish (Fr. garnir) is to warn, and the garnishee is a person warned not to pay money which he owes to another, because the latter is indebted to the garnisher who gives the warning. See ATTACHMENT.
Garnishee.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 89
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