Trustee /(?)/

Trus·tee

Trustee

n.
  1. 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. (Law)

Phrases & Compounds
Trustee process
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.

Trustee

v. t.
  1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.
  2. To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. (Law) [U. S.]