Garnishment
in law, (1) a warnney of an absconding debtor to appear in court or give information. (2) A warning or legal notice not to pay money, etc., to a defendant, but to appear and answer to a plaintiff creditor's suit. (3) A fee.
India, forming the S. W. corner of As- GARO (gärō) HILLS, a district of sam; area, 3,350 square miles. It is a mountainous and forest region intersected by tributaries of the Brahmaputra. The native Garos are a robust and active race. Among them the wife is regarded as the head of the family, and property descends through females. Pop. about 154,000.
GARONNE (gä-ron') (ancient Garumna), the principal river in the S. W. of France, rising within the Spanish frontier in the Val d'Aran, at the base of Mount Maladetta, in the Pyrenees, 6,142 feet above sea-level. About 26 miles from its source it enters the French ter- GARONNE ritory in the department of Haute Garonne, flows in a general N. E. course to Toulouse, then bends to the N. W., and continues to flow in that direction till joined by the Dordogne, about 20 miles below Bordeaux, and widening afterward into the estuary which bears the name of the Gironde, it enters the Atlantic at the Pointe de Grave. The estuary, the largest in France, is nearly 50 miles long. The total length of the river is about 346 miles; it drains an area of about 22,020 square miles. Its navigation, which, however, is much impeded above Toulouse, commences for small craft at Cazères; ocean steamers go up to Bordeaux. Its principal affluents are the Tarn, Lot, and Dordogne, on the right; and on the left, the Save, Gers, and Baise. At Toulouse it is joined by the Canal du Midi, which running E. to the Mediterranean, forms with the Garonne a means of communication between that sea and the Atlantic; and the river's own "side canal," starting also from Toulouse, runs along the right bank, receives the Montauban canal, and spans several streams in its course, crossing the Garonne itself at Agen by a magnificent viaduct, and returning to the river at Castets, after a total length of 120 miles. The valley of the Garonne is noted for the beauty of its scenery, but is liable to destructive inundations.