from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[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]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TRUSTEE PROCESS, practice. In Massachusetts, this is a process given by
statute, in imitation of the foreign attachment of the English law.
2. By this process, a creditor may attach any property or credits of
his debtor in the hands of a third person. This third person is, in the
English law, called the garnishee; in Massachusetts, he is the trustee.
White's Dig. tit. 148. Vide Attachment.