freezing order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 337 U.S. 472 - Propper v. Clark · 1949Most cited · 815 citing opinions
The freezing order immobilized the assets covered by its terms so that title to them might not shift from person to person except by license until the Government could determine whether those assets were needed for prosecution of the threatened war or to compensate our citizens or ourselves for the damages done by the governments of the nationals affected.
How often courts cite the case defining “freezing order”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “freezing order” — 815 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.