---
title: "LegalHold"
description: "a hold that stops an erasure of a subject, with its reason, who set it and until when"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/legalhold
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# LegalHold

a hold that stops an erasure of a subject, with its reason, who set it and until when

[figure: LegalHold is a definition at tenant scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | tenant |
| key | the subject |
| store | postgres |
| family | people |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `subject` | `id` | yes |  |
| `reason` | `text` | yes |  |
| `set_by` | `id` | yes |  |
| `until` | `date` | no |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns LegalHold directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.