writ of prohibition

1. 1.

   a judicial writ from a higher court ordering a lower court not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about writ of prohibition

What does writ of prohibition mean?

writ of prohibition means "a judicial writ from a higher court ordering a lower court not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case".

Is writ of prohibition a common word?

writ of prohibition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.