Prohibition
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| 1. | The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. | ||||
| 2. | Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
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| Noun | 1. |  prohibition - a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" |
| 2. |  prohibition - a decree that prohibits somethingSynonyms: ban, proscription | |
| 3. |  prohibition - the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendmentSynonyms: prohibition era | |
| 4. | prohibition - refusal to approve or assent to | |
| 5. | prohibition - 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" Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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.