Talk:Garnishee order

Isn't the correct term "garnishment order"? -- Zoe

Check out the external links listed in the entry. David dePaoli

A Google search comes up with 1390 hits on "garnishee order" and 1960 for "garnishment order" -- Zoe

Did you follow any of them? My informal and very cursory check looked like the "ee" ones came from the UK and the "ment" ones from US and Canada. Maybe some lawyer- types will check in. Oh, wait. They're all too busy suing Mickey Dee's for force- feeding kids double cheeseburgers, super-size fries and orange drink and making them obese.


 * Well, the second one on the subject page is a US site, but it's true that the ones at garnishment look to be more US sites. -- Zoe


 * I'd say a new entry for "ment" with a redirect is in order. David "I was force- fed quarter pounders with cheese by McDee's" dePaoli

In the U.S. the term "garnishee" now means a person to whom an order of garnishment is issued (C in the article's example) -- any other use is out-dated and has been since at least 1968 when my 4th ed. Black's Law Dictionary was published. In common usage, at least (and maybe still in some laws and/or court rules written a century ago), the verb used to be "to garnishee" someone's wages (and some people still use it that way, but it's old-fashioned at best and pretentious at worst), but now it's "to garnish" them (by issuing "process of garnishment" to a garnishee, so in that sense it IS a "garnishee order"). (And it's just a "garnishment" that's issued, not necessarily "a garnishment order.") I don't know what the situation is in the U.K.  Garnishment is a sub-field of "attachment," by the way, which probably deserves an article or, at least, a disambiguation page of its own. -- isis 12:07 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)