Clawback

Claw back tokens issued by your account.

Clawback is disabled by default. To use clawback, you must send an AccountSet transaction to enable the Allow Trust Line Clawback setting. An issuer with any existing tokens cannot enable Clawback. You can only enable Allow Trust Line Clawback if you have a completely empty owner directory, meaning you must do so before you set up any trust lines, offers, escrows, payment channels, checks, or signer lists. After you enable Clawback, it cannot reverted: the account permanently gains the ability to claw back issued assets on trust lines.

Example Clawback JSON

{
  "TransactionType": "Clawback",
  "Account": "rp6abvbTbjoce8ZDJkT6snvxTZSYMBCC9S",
  "Amount": {
      "currency": "FOO",
      "issuer": "rsA2LpzuawewSBQXkiju3YQTMzW13pAAdW",
      "value": "314.159"
    }
}

Clawback Fields

In addition to the common fields, Clawback transactions use the following fields:

Field	JSON Type	Internal Type	Description
`Amount`	Currency Amount	Amount	Indicates the amount being clawed back, as well as the counterparty from which the amount is being clawed back. The quantity to claw back, in the `value` sub-field, must not be zero. If this is more than the current balance, the transaction claws back the entire balance. The sub-field `issuer` within `Amount` represents the token holder's account ID, rather than the issuer's.

The account executing this transaction must be the issuer of the asset being clawed back. Note that in the XRP Ledger, trust lines are bidirectional and, under some configurations, both sides can be seen as the issuer of an asset. In this specification, the term issuer is used to mean the side of the trust line that has an outstanding balance (that is, 'owes' the issued asset) that it wants to claw back.

Error Cases

Besides errors that can occur for all transactions, Clawback transactions can result in the following transaction result codes:

Error Code	Description
`temDISABLED`	Occurs if the Clawback amendment is not enabled.
`temBAD_AMOUNT`	Occurs if the holder's balance is 0. It is not an error if the amount exceeds the holder's balance; in that case, the maximum available balance is clawed back. Also occurs if the counterparty listed in `Amount` is the same as the `Account` issuing this transaction.
`tecNO-LINE`	Occurs there is no trust line with the counterparty or that trust line's balance is 0.
`tecNO-PERMISSION`	Occurs if you attempt to set `lsfAllowTrustlineClawback` while `lsfNoFreeze` is set. Also occurs, conversely, if you try to set `lsfNoFreeze` while `lsfAllowTrustLineClawback` is set.