attachment of wages

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• Attachment of earnings — is a legal process in civil litigation by which a defendant s wages or other earnings are taken to pay for a debt. This collections process is used in the common law system, especially Britain and the United States, but in other legal regimes as… …   Wikipedia

• attachment — I (act of affixing) noun adjunction, affixation, annexation, annexion, attaching, binding, bond, cohesion, confixation, conjunction, connection, fastening, fixing, insertion, joinder, joining, junction, ligation, nexus, subjunction, that which… …   Law dictionary

• attachment of earnings — England, Wales A method by which money will be stopped from a person s wages to pay a judgment debt. The judgment debtor s employer must make payments out of his wages into court and the court then releases payment to the judgment creditor to… …   Law dictionary

• attachment — c.1400, arrest of a person on judicial warrant (mid 13c. in Anglo Latin), from Fr. attachement, from attacher (see ATTACH (Cf. attach)). Application to property (including, later, wages) dates from 1590s; meaning sympathy, devotion is recorded… …   Etymology dictionary

• attachment of earnings — (law) Arrestment of an employee s wages by a court order to honour financial commitments • • • Main Entry: ↑attach …   Useful english dictionary

• attachment — /euh tach meuhnt/, n. 1. an act of attaching or the state of being attached. 2. a feeling that binds one to a person, thing, cause, ideal, or the like; devotion; regard: a fond attachment to his cousin; a profound attachment to the cause of peace …   Universalium

• Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …   Universalium

• Garnishment — 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. United States Wage garnishment Wage garnishment,… …   Wikipedia

• United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …   Universalium

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium

• political system — Introduction       the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… …   Universalium