Definition of Prohebition
Pro`hi*bi"tion (?), n. [L.
prohibitio: cf. F. prohibition.]
1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or
injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists
mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson.
2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the
sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
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.
&fist; By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ
itself.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a law that prohibits something
- something that is forbidden, disallowed, or proscribed; something illegal or illicit.
- a historical period where alcohol was legally treated as a controlled substance in general.
Prohibition- (history) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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