Garnishment

n. decoration and adornment of food; legal confiscation of property or funds

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.
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Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) court order
(derivation) garnishee, garnish
(classification) law, jurisprudence

(n.)
Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
  

(n.)
A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.
  

The seizing of a person's property, credit or salary, on the basis of a law which allows it, and for the purposes of paying off a debt. - (read more on Garnishment)