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A police raid confiscating illegal alcohol, in Elk Lake, Canada, in 1925. Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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The modern sense "to prohibit" is influenced by the cognate Old Norse banna "to curse, to prohibit" and also from Old French ban, ultimately a loan from Old Frankish, meaning "outlawry, banishment". [1] The Indo-European etymology of the Germanic term is from a root *bha-meaning "to speak".
Prohibition commonly refers to the banning of alcoholic beverages and the period of time during which such bans are enforced.. Prohibition may also refer to: . Drug prohibition
Prohibitionism is a legal philosophy and political theory often used in lobbying which holds that citizens will abstain from actions if the actions are typed as unlawful (i.e. prohibited) and the prohibitions are enforced by law enforcement. [1]
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A "writ of prohibition", in the United States, is a court order rendered by a higher court to a judge presiding over a suit in an inferior court. The writ of prohibition mandates the inferior court to cease any action over the case because it may not fall within that inferior court's jurisdiction.
It was just after midnight Sunday in the Eastern time zone when the social media post from ESPN nearly broke the internet. "The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff ...