Affectation of private property by seizure of assets and other real precautionary measures in de jurisprudence of the inter-American court of human rights

Abstract

This article deals with the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding effects on private property, derived from the internal judicial activity of the member states, due to the seizures of property and other real precautionary measures. Analyzes the judgments in this matter, issued by the court in contentious cases from 1993 onwards, which are presented chronologically with a doctrinal review. The objective of this work is to determine the vision of the Court about the limits and conditions to which the exercise of state precautionary protection must be subject, so as not to violate the guarantee of property enshrined in the American Convention on Human Rights.