Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. A guardian, defender, or protector. In feudal law, gardio. Spelman. A warden. Oardianus ecclesice, a churchwarden. Oardianus quinque portuum, warden of the Cinque Ports. Spelman.

In old English law. A guardian, defender, or protector. In feudal law, gardio. Spelman. A warden. Oardianus ecclesice, a churchwarden. Oardianus quinque portuum, warden of the Cinque Ports. Spelman. Less...

In old English law. A garden. Reg. Orig. lb; 2.

In old English law. A garden. Reg. Orig. lb; 2. Less...

L. Fr. A warren; a privileged place for keeping animals.

L. Fr. A warren; a privileged place for keeping animals. Less...

In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other implements of war, necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250.

In old English law. Victuals, arms, and other implements of war, necessary for the defense of a town or castle. Mat. Par. 1250. Less...

n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison.

n. In English law. Money paid by a prisoner to his fellow-prisoners on his entrance into prison. Less...

v. To warn or summon. To issue process of garnishment against a person.

v. To warn or summon. To issue process of garnishment against a person. Less...

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment is issued; one who has money or property in his possession belonging to a defendant, or who owes the defendant a debt, which money, property, or debt is attached in his hands, with notice to him not to deliver or pay More...

One garnished; a person against whom process of garnishment is issued; one who has money or property in his possession belonging to a defendant, or who owes the defendant a debt, which money, property, or debt is attached in his hands, with notice to him not to deliver or pay it over until the result of the suit be ascertained. Welsh v. Blackwell, 14 N. J. Law, 348; Smith v. Miln, 22 Fed. Cas. 606. Less...

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but to appear and answer the plaintiffs suit. Drake. Attachm. s 451; National Bank More...

In the process of attachment. A warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached not to pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but to appear and answer the plaintiffs suit. Drake. Attachm. s 451; National Bank of Wilmington v. Furtick, 2 Marv. (Del.) 35, 42 Ati. 479, 44 L. R. A. 115, 69 Am. St. Rep. 99; Georgia A A. Ry. Co. v. Stollenwerck, 122 Ala. 539, 25 South. 258; Jeary v. American Exch. Bank, 2 Neb. (ITnof.) 657, 89 N. W. 772. 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 a judgment or decree, 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, s 2994. Garnishment is a 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 hands of a third person, to its payment. Strickland v. Maddox, 4 Ga. 393. Also a warning to any one for his appearance, in a cause in which he is not a party, for the information of the court and explaining a cause. Cowell. -Equitable garnishment. This term is sometimes applied to the statutory proceedings authorized in some states, upon the return of an execution unsatisfied, whereby an action something like a bill of discovery may be maintained against the judgment debtor and any third person, to compel the disclosure of any money or property or chose in action belonging to the debtor or held in trust for him by such third person, and to procure satisfaction of the judgment out of such property. Geist v. St. Louis, 156 Mo. 643, 57 S. W. 766, 79 Am. St. Rep. 545. See St. Louis v. O'Neil Lumber Co., 114 Mo. 74, 21 S. W. 484. Less...

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortification of a city or camp, or for the ornament of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount.

In old English law. Garniture; whatever is necessary for the fortification of a city or camp, or for the ornament of a thing. 8 Rymer, 328; Du Cange; Cowell; Blount. Less...

A method of Inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practised in Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish-American countries, consisting in strangulation by means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the neck of the sufferer, sometimes with the variation that a sharpened screw is made to advance from More...

A method of Inflicting the death penalty on convicted criminals practised in Spain, Portugal, and some Spanish-American countries, consisting in strangulation by means of an iron collar which is mechanically tightened about the neck of the sufferer, sometimes with the variation that a sharpened screw is made to advance from the back of the apparatus and pierce the base of the brain. Also, popularly, any form of strangling resorted to to overcome resistance or induce unconsciousness, especially as a concomitant to highway robbery. Less...