Inhibition

In ecclesiastical law

A writ issuing 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 process 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 voluntarily to the prejudice of such creditor. In the civil law. A prohibition which the law makes or a judge ordains to an individual. Hallifax, Civil Law, p.

126.