Autos de Oposición a las M. Cautelares xxx

00:00 Jan 21, 2009 

(where "M." stands for "medidas")
---------injunctions - preventive / precautionary measures - interim injunctions----------

*injunctions* are writs granted by a **court of equity** whereby one is required to do or to refrain from doing a specified act ==>> medidas de no innovar o medidas restrictivas.
*Preventive / precautionary measures* ==>> medidas cautelares.
*Interim injunction* ==>> medida provisoria. its objective is to ensure immediate legal protection to prevent the impairment of rights that, **due to the lapse of time**. By ordering an interim injunction the **trial court** ººobliges the adversary of the applicant to comply at a time when it has not yet come to a decisionºº Applicability: basic criterion is that enforcement must be necessary for preventing an imminent threat of damage or maintaining the situation that caused the legal dispute or for the protection of the specific rights of the applicant, and that the disadvantage caused by the measure does not exceed the advantages that can be achieved by it.

22:48 Jan 20, 2009 

M. Cautelares es medidas cautelares o "precautionary / preventive / provisional measures" según Alcaraz Varó Brian Hughes.