freezing injunction

British

noun

Formerly called: Mareva injunction. law an order enabling the court to freeze the assets of a defendant, esp to prevent him or her taking them abroad

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freezing injunction

Armed with this, he then went to the high court to obtain a freezing injunction – at a cost of £34,000.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2019

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