Marevan.
/məˈreɪvə/, /məˈriːvə/, U.S. /məˈreɪvə/, /məˈrivə/ English Law.
In full Mareva injunction. An injunction against a debtor who has assets in the United Kingdom, to prevent the assets from being taken abroad. Frequently attributive.
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1977 Solicitors' Jrnl. 28 Oct. 706/1 The Mareva procedure had been invoked constantly in the commercial court, and his lordship [sc. Lord Denning] held that the Karageorgis and Mareva cases were rightly decided.
1978 Jrnl. Business Law Jan. 13 The first case in which an application for a Mareva injunction was contested, Rasu Maritime v. Pertambangen.
1980 Times 24 Apr. 9/1 The fact that the defendant was not a foreigner..was no bar to the grant of a Mareva injunction restraining him from removing his assets from the jurisdiction.
1980 Times 24 Apr. 9/5 The Mareva doctrine grew up in commercial surroundings, particularly in regard to ships.
1989 Legal Action Oct. 16/1 A Mareva injunction is an ex parte interlocutory injunction available to a plaintiff..designed to prevent the defendant ‘..concealing his assets so as to make a judgment against him..difficult to enforce’. The Mareva is therefore available to a plaintiff before judgment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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