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Garnish

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English Law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow prisoners on his entrance into prison. To warn. To garnish the heir is to warn the heir.

Obsolete.

In Practice. To attach by process of garnishment.