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interdict verb arrest, bar, block, check, debar, deelare illegal, deny, deter, disallow, embargo, enjoin, forbid, halt, hinder, impede, inhibit, interdicere, obstruct, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, refuse permission, repress, restrict, stop, thwart, veto See also: ban, bar, block, coerce, condemn, constraint, debar, enjoin, exclude, forbid, inhibit, obstruction, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, renounce, restrain, restrict, restriction, veto INTERDICT, civil Among the Romans it was an ordinance of the praetor, which forbade or enjoined the parties in a suit to do something particularly specified, until it should be decided definitely who had the right in relation to it. Like an injunction, the interdict was merely personal in its effects and it had also another similarity to it, by being temporary or perpetual. Dig. 43, 1, 1, 3, and 4. See Story, E Jur. 865; Halif. Civ. Law, ch. 6 Vicat, Vocab. h. v.; Hein. Elem. Pand. Ps. 6, Sec. 285. Vide Injunction. INTERDICT, OR INTERDICTION, eccles. law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which divine services are prohibited either to particular persons or particular places. These tyrannical edicts, issued by ecclesiastical powers, have never been in force in the United States. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Several daylight Marine interdictions missions were intercepted and attacked by North Korean/Chinese MiG-15 aircraft; however, the air-to-air armament on all Marine aircraft and the tactics used by Marine pilots successfully countered the enemy's efforts. Detective Carlos Gomez, stationed at the airport to work on narcotics-related interdictions, became suspicious of Wilkinson's luggage as it went through the X-ray machine about noon Wednesday and asked her who had packed her luggage. Commanders whose districts register abnormally low interdiction rates while maintaining normal to high daytime burglary rates may be called on to explain the dearth of interdictions in their districts. |
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