Interdiction - Law Dictionary Search Results
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interdiction 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : removal of the right to care for one's own person and affairs called also complete interdiction full interdiction compare limited interdiction 2 : the act or an instance of interdicting [ of drugs] ...
Interdict, Interdiction
Interdict, Interdiction, an ecclesiastical censure pro-hibiting the administration of the offices of re-ligion, either to particular persons or in particular places, or both, but usually the latter; see Hall. Mid. Ages, ch. vii., pt. I. This severe censure has been long disused. In the Civil Law interdicts were certain formula by which the process ordered or forbade something to be done; they were chiefly employed in disputes as to possession, or quasi-possession, and were nearly equivalent to our writ of injunction. For a division of them, see Sand. Just. Also, in Scots Law, an injunction...
limited interdiction
limited interdiction in the civil law of Louisiana : partial removal of one's rights [under limited interdiction he could care for his person but not his estate] compare interdiction ...
complete interdiction
complete interdiction : interdiction ...
full interdiction
full interdiction : interdiction ...
interdict
interdict 1 : something that prohibits 2 : one that has been interdicted compare ward [in-tər-dikt] vt 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : to deprive (a person) of the right to care for one's own person or affairs because of mental incapacity compare commit, curator, tutor 2 : to authoritatively prohibit or bar (an act or conduct) 3 : to intercept or cut off (as a drug shipment) by force ...
limited interdict
limited interdict in the civil law of Louisiana : a person subject to limited interdiction ...
Interdiction
The act of interdicting prohibition prohibiting decree curse interdict...
Interdictive
Having the power to prohibit as an interdictive sentence...
Interdiction of fire and water
Interdiction of fire and water [interdictio ignis et aqu', Lat.], banishment by an order that no man should supply the person banished with fire or water, two of the necessaries of life....
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