Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prohibit
Meaning of Prohibit
To forbid by authority . Andrews v GeorgiaMut. Ins. Co., 137S.E.2d746,110 Ga.App. 92.
Synonyms of Prohibit
verb
- ban
- banish
- bar
- block
- check
- circumscribe
- control
- counteract
- curb
- debar
- deny
- disallow
- disqualify
- embargo
- enjoin
- exclude
- forbid
- foreclose
- forfend
- gainsay
- halt
- hamper
- hinder
- impede
- inhibit
- interdict
- interfere
- limit
- make illegal
- negate
- negative
- obstruct
- omit
- oppose
- preclude
- prevent
- proscribe
- protest
- quash
- quell
- refuse
- refuse permission
- regulate
- reject
- repress
- repudiate
- restrain
- restrict
- revoke
- shut out
- smother
- stay
- stop
- suppress
- suspend
- thwart
- traverse
- veto
- Associated Concepts: prohibited action
- prohibited by law
- prohibited form
- prohibited practice foreign phrases: Contra legem facit qui idfacit quod lex prohibit; in fraudem vero qui
- salvis verbis legis
- sententiam ejus circumvenit
- He who does what the law prohibits
- acts in fraud of the law; the letter of the law being inviolate
- cheats the spirit of it
- Cui licet guod majus
- non debet quod minus est non licere
- He who is allowed to do the greater ought not to be prohibited from doing the less
- et nolle prohíbete cumpossis
- It is the same thing to commit an act as not to prohibit it when it is in your power
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Meaning of Prohibit in Canada
In this country (and some others), a meaning of Prohibit may be the following: To forbid by law, to prevent.
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