(1) To warn. (2) To exact money from prisoners.<\/p>\n
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911):<\/p>\n
“Garnish, a word meaning to fit out, equip, furnish, now particularly used of decoration or ornament. It is formed from the O. Fr. _garnisant_ or _guarnissant_, participle of _garnir_, _guarnir_, to furnish, equip. This is of Teutonic origin, the base being represented in O. Eng. ATTACHMENT; EXECUTION; BANKRUPTCY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garnish in Europe Definition of Garnish (1) To warn. (2) To exact money from prisoners. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911): Garnish, a word meaning to fit out, equip, furnish, now particularly used of decoration or ornament. It is formed from the O. Fr. _garnisant_ or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,7,52],"tags":[216,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n_warnian_, to take warning, beware, and Ger. _warnen_, to warn, Eng.\u00a0 _warn_; the original sense would be to guard against, fortify, hence equip or fit out. The meaning of “warn” is seen in the law term”garnishee,”<\/a> a person who owes money to or holds money belonging to
\nanother and is “warned” by order of the court not to pay it to his immediate creditor but to a third person who has obtained final judgment against that creditor.”<\/p>\nResources<\/h2>\n
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