INHIBITION

J:n eoclesiastlcal law. A writ i uing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to proceed further in a cause pending before him. In this sense it is closely analogous to the writ of prohibition at common law. Also the command of a bishop or ecclesiastical judge that a clergyman shall cease from taking any duty. In Scotch law. A species of diligence or proce by which a debtor is prohibited from contracting any debt which may become a burden on his heritable property, in, competition with the creditor at whose instance the inhibition is taken out·; and from granting any deed of alienation, etc., to the prejudice of the creditor. Brande. In the civil la.w. A prohibition which the law makes or a judge ordains to an individual. Hallifax, Civil Law, p. 126. -Inhibition against a wife. In Scotch law. A writ in the sovereign's name, pa ing the signet, which prohibits art and sundry from having transactions with a wife or giving her credit. Bell; Ersk. Inst. 1, 6, 26. [s. 632]