Religious censure, often used in the Middle Ages as a tool by the senior clergy to force a secular lord's hand. Under the interdict, no religious services can be conducted, so no marriages, burials, or baptisms could be performed. Given the importance of religion to the people of the Middle Ages, the interdict was a powerful weapon, to a degree balancing the physical force available to the secular lords.

The ecclesiastical banning of all sacraments-except for baptism and extreme unction and for sacrements performed on high feast days. Interdicts were enforced to force persons, institutions, a community, or a secular lord to accept a view dictated by the Church or Pope.

an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district

a censure, or prohibition, excluding the faithful from participation in certain holy things

a measure which seeks to punish a population or a religious body (e

an ecclesiastical penalty directed against an entire country

a refusal of all sacraments to the people within the parish, diocese, or nation

an ecclesiastical punishment excluding the faithful from participation in spiritual things; it could be applied to individuals, to local areas such as parishes, or to whole populations

a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district Source

an order issued by the praetor or other magistrate, usually giving rise to further proceedings if disregarded. It was used especially as a procedural device to determine property rights; but it was also the normal way to start proceedings for the protection of both public and private interest. The particular circumstances under which an interdictum would be issued were set forth in the praetor's Edictum.

the order made by a court for putting a stay on any unlawful proceeding interdiction this is a type of restraint imposed by a court, which usually takes the form of a bond; it is imposed by a court on (or assumed voluntarily by) a person who cannot handle his own affairs and therefore might be taken unfair advantage of, and its purpose is to prevent him from doing anything which might affect his estate, without the prior consent of those who are named in the bond interlocutors judgements or pronouncements of a court

a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity

command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

a court order which prevents the guilty person from doing something or orders the guilty person to do something

A court order to prevent someone from doing something or to force someone to do something.

An interdict is the term for an injunction in Scottish law. Find out more about the differences between the legal systems in Scotland and England, Wales and N.Ireland.

A court order prohibiting specified acts.

an order of Court prohibiting conduct