GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Trustee , 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.
   1913 Webster
   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.]
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

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   Trustee process. (Law) The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]
   Webster 1913 Suppl.