Restrain

1.

To keep in, hold in: to abridge, confine, regulate. To restrain and suppress an amusement is to regulate or wholly si»ppress it, or regulate it by a license.*.See Peohibition, 2. 3, To limit, restrict, liindei-, repress: as in saying that contracts in restraint of trade, or of marriage, are void. A "restraining statute" limits the action of the common law. See Duress; Imprisonment; Legal, Illegal.

3.

To prohibit by judicial order, by injunction; to enjoin: as, to restrain an act, a proceeding, a defendant. A " restraining order " is of the nature of an injunction. The force of such an order ceases upon the granting of an in^nnctioiL pendente life.^ Restrictive. Limited, to a particular person or purpose: as, a restrictive condition, indorsement, q. v. Compare Absolute.