INHIBITION

(Lat.inhibeo, /rwifram.) In Scottish Law, a species of diligence; i. e. proce . It is a writ in the king's name, pa ing under the signet, whereby 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, ., to the prejudice of the creditor. The heir of the debtor is not aflected hy the inhibition of his ancestor. Other species of inhibition are, that of a husl>and against his wife, intended to signify that her superintendence over domestic affairs has ceased, on which his liability for domestic expenditure contracted by her also ceases; and inhibition of tithes or teinds. Inhibition. In Ecclesiastical Law, a writ, commonly i uing out of a higher court Christian, to forbid an inferior judge from further proceeding in a cause before him; being analogous to a prohibition i uing out of one of the king's superior courts of justice. [s. 612]