attachment of earnings

noun

A legal process by which a creditor may take funds directly from the debtor’s wages.

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Meanings

nounattachment of earnings (countable and uncountable, plural attachments of earnings)

plural attachments of earnings

  1. countableuncountablelawA legal process by which a creditor may take funds directly from the debtor’s wages.

    Attachment of earnings is administered by the county courts; the procedure can be used for High Court judgments, but they must be transferred to the county court for the purpose.

    1989, J. R. Spencer, editor, Jackson’s Machinery of Justice, →ISBN, page 88
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