Actions of arrest
The action of arrest is a unique Manx remedy available to
creditors whose debtors are resident and/or retain property on the
Island. The aim of the action of arrest is to ensure that debtors
submit to the Manx courts to answer for their debts.
The arrest action gives a creditor with good grounds for
supposing that their debtor is about to leave the island without
settling the debt, the right to arrest his debtor ("a personal
arrest") and/or the debtor's property to the value of the
debt ("proprietary arrest"). In addition, there are
further requirements for the two forms of arrest. For a personal
arrest the creditor must have good grounds for supposing that the
debtor will remain absent without settling the debt whilst for a
proprietary arrest there must be good grounds for
supposing that the debtor intends to remove a substantial part of
his debt from the island.
