Usually means: Court order stopping judicial action.
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  1. writ of prohibition: Merriam-Webster
  2. writ of prohibition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. writ of prohibition: Vocabulary.com
  4. writ of prohibition: Wordnik
  5. writ of prohibition: Wiktionary
  6. writ of prohibition: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. writ of prohibition: Dictionary.com
  8. Writ of prohibition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. writ of prohibition: Rhymezone
  10. writ of prohibition: FreeDictionary.org
  11. writ of prohibition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Prohibition, Writ of, writ of prohibition: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  3. Prohibition, Writ of, writ of prohibition: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (writ of prohibition)

noun:  (law) A writ from a superior tribunal staying proceedings in a lower court.
noun:  (law, Scotland) A clause in a deed of entail forbidding the heir to sell the estate, contract debt, etc.

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