诉讼前扣押船载货物简称诉前扣货,是海事法院根据海事请求权人的申请,为保全其海事请求权,在诉讼前扣押船舶所载货物的一种财产保全措施。《民事诉讼法》颁布以前,海事法院就已经有诉前扣货的实践,1989年最高人民法院“关于海事法院收案范围的规定”将诉前扣货案件正式列入海事法院的收案范围,但办理这类案件一直没有法律依据。直到1991年颁布的《民事诉讼法》才将 Litigation prior to the arrest of ship cargo referred to before the deduction of goods, is the maritime court under the maritime claims the right to apply for the preservation of its maritime claims, before arresting the goods contained in the ship a kind of property preservation measures. Before the promulgation of the Civil Procedure Law, the maritime court already had the practice of detaining goods before the lawsuit. In 1989, the Supreme Court’s “Provisions on the Scope of Receiving Cases in the Maritime Court” formally included the cases of pre-litigation with the maritime court However, there has been no legal basis for handling such cases. Until 1991, promulgated the “Code of Civil Procedure” only