interim measures
Short-term fixes
Interim measures are temporary actions taken while waiting for a permanent solution or final decision.
Courts issue interim measures to preserve the status quo during litigation: The judge granted interim measures to prevent the company from destroying evidence.
In international law, interim measures may freeze assets or halt deportations until a case is resolved.
The term emphasizes that these steps are stopgaps, not endpoints.
- courtsJudicial bodies or playing areas
- litigationLegal dispute process
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- defendantParty facing charges
- stay of executionTemporary halt to punishment
civil procedure · judges · court order · humanitarian corridor · hearing · temporary restraining order · precautionary · cooling off period · moratorium · ceasefire agreement · restraining order · protective order · status quo · emergency relief · plaintiff · judicial review · freeze · pending
- interim relieftemporary relief, temporary orders, emergency relief
- legal remediesinjunctions, injunction, damages, restitution, restraining order
- conflict of lawsapplicable law, characterization, characterisation, comity, escape clauses
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
- Legal Procedurecivil procedure, criminal procedure, trial procedure, legal proceedings, court proceedings
- legal timingretroactivity, effective date, sunset clause, ex post facto, statute of limitations