Garnishee: alternatives and connections

(Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to their creditor); a surr…

A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.

The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which…

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein,…

One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to che…

A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to…

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's;…

In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a j…

A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the perso…

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law besto…