garnishment -
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
court order a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something
jurisprudence,
law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
A garnishment is a means of collecting a monetary judgment against a defendant by ordering a third party (the garnishee) to pay money, otherwise owed to the defendant, directly to the plaintiff. In the case of collecting for taxes, the law of a jurisdiction may allow for collection without a judgment or other court order.
