(A) The person or party who receives a court order and is to garnish the wages of a debtor, e.g. a bank or employer. (B) practice. A person who has money or property in his possession, belonging to a defendant, which money or property has been attached in his hands, and he has had notice of such attachment; he is so called because he has had warning or notice of the attachment. … [Read more...]

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure. There are also private gaugers in large seaport towns, who are licensed by government to perform the same duties. Rapal. & L. … [Read more...]

Also transliterated as Gemarah and the Hebrew word meaning the completion. This refers to the Rabbinical legal discussions and disputes concerning the fundamental commentaries of Jewish law stated in the Mishnah and which was codified and completed circa 500 CE. The Mishnah and the Gemarah together comprise the Talmud, the Jewish legal commentary. … [Read more...]

After a debtor loses a lawsuit against a creditor, the court may order that property be taken from the debtor to satisfy a debt. Most common enforcement measures are the attachment of wages, which usually empowers the prevailing plaintiff with the right to have the employer send up to 25% of the defendant's wages to the plaintiff as payment of the debt. Law Dictionary - … [Read more...]

A gauge or gauging; a measure of the contents of any vessel. … [Read more...]