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INTERDICTION

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In French law.
Every person who, on account of insanity, has become incapable of controlling his own interests, can be put under the control of a guardian, who shall administer his affairs with the same effect as he might himself. Such a person is said to be “interdit,” and his status is described as “interdiction.” Arg. Fr. Merc Law, 562.
In the civil law. A judicial decree, by which a person is deprived of the exercise of his civil rights.
In international law. An “interdiction of commercial intercourse” between two countries is a governmental prohibition of commercial intercourse, intended to bring about an entire cessation for the time being of all trade whatever. See The Edward, 1 Wheat 272, 4 L. Ed. 86. Interdiction of fire and water. Banishment by an order that no man should supply the person banished with (ire or water, the two necessaries of life.

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