Garnishment

In the process of atto pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but to appear and unswer the plaintifi’s suit. Drake, Attachm. § 451. - A. “garnishment,” as the word is employed in this Code, is process to reach and subject money or effects of a-defendant in attachment, or in 4 judgment or deeree, or in a pending suit commenced in the ordinary form, in the possession or under the control of a third person, or debts owing such defendant, or liabilities to him on contracts for the delivery of personal property, or on contracts for the payment of money which may be discharged by the delivery of personal property, or on a contract payable in personal property; and such third person is called the “garnishee.”

Code Ala. 1886, § 2994.

Garnishment isa proceeding to apply the debt due by a third person to a judgment defendant, to the extinguishment of that judgment, or to appropriate effects belonging to a defendant, in the hunds of a third person, to its payment.

4Ga.

393, Also a warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is nota party, for the information of the court and expiaining acause.

Covell.