What is a Garnishee Order and How is it Enforced in India?
Garnishee means a judgment-debtor’s debtor. He is a person who is liable either to pay debt to a judgment-debtor or account for any movable property not in the possession of the judgment-debtor.The debt must be one other than a debt secured by a mortgage, a charge, a negotiable instrument, or a debt recovered only in a revenue court.A garnishee order is an order which a court is authorized to make against a garnishee-judgment debtor’s requiring him to pay or deliver in court the amount due from or the property deliverable by him to the judgment-debtor or so much as may be sufficient to satisfy the decree and the cost of execution. nahoumlaw.com ADVERTISEMENTS: The court may in the case of debt (other than a debt secured by a mortgage or…