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Trustee process

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trustee process \Trus*tee" proc"ess\ (Law)
   The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

Trustee \Trus*tee"\, n. (Law)
   A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to
   be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals,
   or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for
   the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the
   effects of another are attached in a trustee process.

   {Trustee process} (Law), a process by which a creditor may
      attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the
      hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the
      {process of foreign attachment}, {garnishment}, or
      {factorizing process}. [U. S.]
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