Prohibition

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F.
     prohibition.]
     1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction
        forbidding some action; interdict.
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              The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists
              mostly of prohibitions.               --Tillotson.
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     2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of
        alcoholic liquors as beverages.
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     {Writ of prohibition} (Law), a writ issued by a superior
        tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the
        latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending
        before it. --Blackstone.
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     Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n.
     The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which
     sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the
     consitution.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prohibition
       n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920
            the 18th amendment to the Constitution established
            prohibition in the US"
       2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: {ban}, {proscription}]
       3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic
          beverages was prohibited in the United States by a
          constitutional amendment [syn: {prohibition era}]
       4: refusal to approve or assent to
       5: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an
          instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition
          in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic
          beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: {inhibition},
           {forbiddance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "prohibition":
     Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban,
     banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription,
     constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb,
     curtailment, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation,
     determent, deterrence, disallowance, disallowing, discouragement,
     embargo, estoppel, exception, exclusion, forbiddance, foreclosure,
     forestalling, halt, hindrance, inadmissibility, inhibition,
     injunction, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, legal restraint,
     lockout, monopoly, narrowing, nonadmission, obviation, omission,
     outlawing, outlawry, preclusion, prevention, prohibitionism,
     proscribing, proscription, protection, protectionism,
     protective tariff, rationing, rein, rejection, relegation,
     repudiation, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction,
     retardation, retrenchment, self-control, slowing down, stay, stop,
     stoppage, stopping, taboo, tariff wall, thought control
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROHIBITION, practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, 
  directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding 
  them to cease from the prosecution of the same, upon a suggestion that the 
  cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong 
  to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court. 3 Bl. Com. 
  112; Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t. Saund. Index, h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 2 
  Sell. Pr. 308; Ayliffe's Parerg. 434; 2 Hen. Bl. 
       2. The writ of prohibition may also be issued when, having 
  jurisdiction, the court has attempted to proceed by rules differing from 
  those which ought to be observed; Bull. N. P. 219; or when, by the exercise 
  of its jurisdiction, the inferior court would defeat a legal right. 2 Chit. 
  Pr. 355.