资料来源 : pyDict
添饰,扣押债权的通知,出庭传票
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Garnishment \Gar"nish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. garnissement
protection, guarantee, warning.]
1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. (Law)
(a) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give
information to the court on any matter.
(b) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of
another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver
the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and
give information as garnishee.
3. A fee. See {Garnish}, n., 4.
资料来源 : WordNet®
garnishment
n : a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an
employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to
the person who won a lawsuit against the employee