Legal basis: "Several Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on the Attachment, Seizure and Freezing of Property in Civil Execution by People's Courts".
Article 21 The property of the person subjected to execution shall be sealed up, detained or frozen to the extent that it is sufficient to pay off the amount of creditor's rights and execution expenses determined in legal documents. Those that obviously exceed the standard shall not be sealed up, detained or frozen. If it is found that the amount exceeding the target amount has been sealed up, detained or frozen, the people's court shall, upon the application of the person subjected to execution or ex officio, promptly terminate the sealing up, seizure and freezing of the part exceeding the target amount, except that the property is inseparable and the person subjected to execution has no other property to execute or other property is insufficient to pay off debts.
Article 33 If a financial institution unfreezes the funds frozen by the people's court without authorization and the frozen funds are transferred, the people's court has the right to order it to recover the transferred funds within a time limit. If it is not recovered within the time limit, it shall be ruled that the financial institution shall bear the compulsory execution responsibility for the applicant with its own property within the scope of the transfer of funds.
Thirty-seventh units concerned, after receiving the notice of the people's court to assist in the execution of income, pay the person subjected to execution or other people without authorization, and the people's court has the right to order them to recover within a time limit; If it fails to recover the compensation within the time limit, it shall be ruled that it shall be liable for compensation to the applicant executor within the paid amount.