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garnishee

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 61 U.S. 128 - Mattingly v. Boyd · 1857Most cited · 17 citing opinions

As a general rule, a garnishee is not bound to pay interest, because he is liable to be called on to pay at all times.

How often courts cite the case defining “garnishee”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “garnishee” — 17 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.