Arrestierung

English translation: seizure/arrest

16:50 Jul 22, 2019
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Law: Contract(s) / Vollstreckung
German term or phrase: Arrestierung
Unable to find this term anywhere, maybe specifically used in Swiss Law. It must mean freezing assets or seizure of assets. Has anyone come across this? Thank you for your input

Sollte der Betrag nicht fristgerecht gezahlt
worden sein, bedauern wir zutiefst, Ihnen
mitteilen zu müssen, dass wir sodann die
internationale Zwangsvollstreckung auf die
Bankkonten und andere Vermögenswerte
der Regierung der Republik XXX
betreiben werden. Eine **Arrestierung** von
Vermögenswerten der Regierung im Ausland
bleibt vorbehalten.
Gabriella Bertelmann
Local time: 20:37
English translation:seizure/arrest
Explanation:
I'm not sure if there is a difference between seizing and 'arresting" assets.

Creditors may request the courts to take certain measures to secure the debtor's assets in order to make them available for eventual liquidation. The most important of these measures are the arrest of assets (Arrest / séquestre) and the challenge of unfair preferences (Anfechtung / révocation).

Debt collection by seizure of assets (Betreibung auf Pfändung / poursuite par voie de saisie): If the debt is not secured, and if the debtor is not a registered commercial entity but a private individual, all his assets can be seized and sold at auction.
Arrest
Creditors may request a court to order an arrest to be laid on certain assets belonging to the debtor. The arrest has the effect of a provisional seizure of these assets.[32]
An arrest may only be ordered if the creditor can establish the prima facie validity of his claim as well as one of several statutory prerequisites for an arrest. An arrest may notably be imposed if the debtor holds a certificate of unpaid debts against the debtor, if the debtor attempts to hide or dispose of his assets, or if the debtor is not resident in Switzerland. The arrest of the assets of foreign debtors also establishes a venue in Switzerland under Swiss private international law in which the debtor may be sued by the creditor, except if the Lugano Convention is applicable.[33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency_law_of_Switzerland


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Arrest von Vermögenswerten (Art. 271 ff. SchKG). Mit dem Arrestgesuch kann der Gläubiger dafür sorgen, dass ein bestimmter, von ihm bezeichneter Vermögenswert der Schuldnerin auf Befehl des Arrestrichters überfallartig beschlagnahmt wird. http://www.schuldeninfo.ch/files/_documents/stichwoerter/arr...


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arrestieren – beschlagnahmen, pfänden
https://fwb-online.de/lemma/arrestieren.s.3v
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3 +3seizure/arrest
Kim Metzger
5attachment
Teresa Reinhardt
5seizure
Cillie Swart
3sequestration; arrest (of ship)
Adrian MM.
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Originalquelle bei den Gerichten in Zürich
dkfmmuc

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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
seizure/arrest


Explanation:
I'm not sure if there is a difference between seizing and 'arresting" assets.

Creditors may request the courts to take certain measures to secure the debtor's assets in order to make them available for eventual liquidation. The most important of these measures are the arrest of assets (Arrest / séquestre) and the challenge of unfair preferences (Anfechtung / révocation).

Debt collection by seizure of assets (Betreibung auf Pfändung / poursuite par voie de saisie): If the debt is not secured, and if the debtor is not a registered commercial entity but a private individual, all his assets can be seized and sold at auction.
Arrest
Creditors may request a court to order an arrest to be laid on certain assets belonging to the debtor. The arrest has the effect of a provisional seizure of these assets.[32]
An arrest may only be ordered if the creditor can establish the prima facie validity of his claim as well as one of several statutory prerequisites for an arrest. An arrest may notably be imposed if the debtor holds a certificate of unpaid debts against the debtor, if the debtor attempts to hide or dispose of his assets, or if the debtor is not resident in Switzerland. The arrest of the assets of foreign debtors also establishes a venue in Switzerland under Swiss private international law in which the debtor may be sued by the creditor, except if the Lugano Convention is applicable.[33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency_law_of_Switzerland


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Arrest von Vermögenswerten (Art. 271 ff. SchKG). Mit dem Arrestgesuch kann der Gläubiger dafür sorgen, dass ein bestimmter, von ihm bezeichneter Vermögenswert der Schuldnerin auf Befehl des Arrestrichters überfallartig beschlagnahmt wird. http://www.schuldeninfo.ch/files/_documents/stichwoerter/arr...


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arrestieren – beschlagnahmen, pfänden
https://fwb-online.de/lemma/arrestieren.s.3v


Kim Metzger
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agree  Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X): agree
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Arrestierung > (CH) Arrestlegung
sequestration; arrest (of ship)


Explanation:
I'm unsure of the target readership, but sequestration ought to be avoided for Scottish (= bankruptcy) consumption.

Normally of foreign government or trade union assets, ex-UK PM Margaret Thatcher having had the (NUM) National Union of Miners' funds sequestered by a court.appointed 'sequestrated' to break the GB/ leader Arthur Scargill/ miners' strike of yesteryear (1984-5).

In the US, sequestration is a remedy in equity-

internationale Zwangsvollstreckung > international levy of execution

Arrestlegung in the CH kleiner Merkur of Swiss law comes out to much the same as Arrestierung.

Pls. also note: WFOs - Worldwide Freezing Orders, previously known as Mareva injunctions after an eponymous case.

Note also: garnishment in AmE; attachment and, generally distraint

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National Union of Minerworkers' funds sequestered by a court-appointed 'sequestrator'...

Example sentence(s):
  • DO YOU SPEAK MAREVA? HOW WORLDWIDE FREEZING ORDERS ARE ENFORCED IN SWITZERLAND

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequestration_(law)
    Reference: http://www.lalive.law/data/publications/Do_You_Speak_Mareva....
Adrian MM.
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agree  Herbmione Granger
37 mins
  -> Danke schön und thanks! It's good to have US approbation.

disagree  Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X): 'arrest' has been mentioned before by someone else.
10 hrs
  -> Indeed, but the respondent had been unsure of the use of the word, so I narrowed down to ships: that you - with your knowledge of Anglo-Am admiralty law - possibly also disagree with.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
attachment


Explanation:
Siehe:
https://www.bk.admin.ch/bk/de/home/regierungsunterstuetzung/...

mit interessanten Infos

Dort, weiter zu
https://www.termdat.bk.admin.ch/Search/Search

Das Ergebnis schaut indirekt auf, wenn man bei 'Arrestgrund' nachschaut. Wie alle Terminologiebanken, "a work in progress"


Teresa Reinhardt
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seizure


Explanation:
seizure as in seizure of government assets


    https://translate.google.co.za/?hl=af#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=Eine%20Arrestierung%20von%20Verm%C3%B6genswerten%20der%20Reg
Cillie Swart
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Reference comments


18 hrs
Reference: Originalquelle bei den Gerichten in Zürich

Reference information:
Mit einigen Detailiformationen über den Arrest von Geldern. Allerdings wohl mit dem Schwerpunkt auf das [Schweizer] Inland.

Deshalb nur so beigefügt als Hintergrundinfo.


    Reference: http://www.gerichte-zh.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/Th...
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