Garnishee
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
A person who has money or property in his possession belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and who has had notice of such attachment. He is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment. Sometimes incorrectly used as a verb in place of "garnish."