inhibition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INHIBI'TION, noun [Latin inhibitio.] 1. Prohibition; restraint; embargo. 2. In law, a writ to forbid or inhibit a judge from farther proceedings in a cause depending before him; commonly, a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
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