---
title: "Legal hold animated icon"
description: "Legal hold animated icon (Legal & compliance). Light: the padlock shackle drops into its body, placing the document on hold. Strong: it slams shut and the body jolts. The hold is retained; the reverse lifts the shackle out."
canonical: https://generativeicons.com/icons/legal-hold/
---

# Legal hold animated icon

Light: the padlock shackle drops into its body, placing the document on hold. Strong: it slams shut and the body jolts. The hold is retained; the reverse lifts the shackle out.

- Id: `legal-hold`
- Category: Legal & compliance
- Search terms: litigation hold, preservation order, preserve records, ediscovery, e-discovery, records freeze, legal freeze, do not delete, retain documents, locked record, hold order, frozen document
- Two states: released to held, played forward and back
- Styles: outline, solid, duotone; outline weights 1.5, 2, 2.5 (any from 1 to 3); motion light or strong
- File: https://generativeicons.com/assets/legal-hold.lottie (dotLottie, 8448 bytes, sha256 1d811dd6187a9c9d288e28892cecc25ad4d93d660018774a04fc3fb42128610a)
- License: MIT

## Install

```sh
npm install @lottiefiles/generative-icons-runtime
npx generative-icons init
npx generative-icons add legal-hold
```

## React

```tsx
// npm install @lottiefiles/generative-icons-react
'use client';
import { AnimatedIcon } from '@lottiefiles/generative-icons-react';
import icon, { src } from './generative-icons/legal-hold.mjs';

export function LegalHoldIcon() {
  return <AnimatedIcon icon={icon} src={src} size={32}
    color="#ffffff" variant="outline" weight={2}
    motion="light" theme="dark" />;
}
```

## JavaScript

```js
import { createIcon } from '@lottiefiles/generative-icons-runtime';
import icon, { src } from './generative-icons/legal-hold.mjs';

const handle = await createIcon(canvas, {
  icon, src,
  color: '#ffffff', style: 'outline', weight: 2,
  motion: 'light', theme: 'dark'
});
button.addEventListener('click', () => handle.play());
// On removal: handle.destroy();
```

More: https://generativeicons.com/icons/legal-hold/ · https://generativeicons.com/api/icons/legal-hold