By Raphaël MORENON
28 March 2025
Stuck with a customer who refuses to pay? An injunction to pay could be your solution. This procedure, which is little known to the general public, is nevertheless an effective way of recovering sums owed without getting involved in an interminable legal battle. Definition and objectives of an injunction to pay An injunction to pay is a simplified legal procedure enabling a creditor to quickly obtain a writ of execution against a recalcitrant debtor. It represents a legal response to the inertia of a debtor who shirks his payment obligations. Its legal nature is twofold: in its first phase, it is a non-adversarial procedure, then in its second phase, it becomes fully adversarial if the debtor lodges an opposition. Its main purpose is to speed up the process of obtaining a writ of execution so that the debtor can be forced to pay. As article 1405 of the Code of Civil Procedure emphasises, the aim of this procedure is to obtain recovery of a specific debt while...
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