PROHIBITION


Meaning of PROHIBITION in English

noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

absolute

If the lease contains an absolute prohibition on assignment, there is no obligation on the lessor to give consent.

An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably.

general

It also provides certain exceptions to the general prohibition .

■ NOUN

notice

Failure by a trader to comply with a prohibition notice or notice to warn is a criminal offence.

■ VERB

apply

This attitude is linked to their refusal to accept that the prohibition of inhumane weapons applies to nuclear weapons.

The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand.

This prohibition applies to all proceedings under s34 including applications to vary or discharge existing orders.

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Prohibition of drugs, they say, works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States.

All reservists had a 60-day window to sign up and there was no prohibition on those who already got their orders.

As a result, reliance has been placed mainly upon case law to map the contours of the current prohibition .

Community members are looking at tribal sovereignty as a way to get around federal prohibitions on hemp.

Does this mean that only this small area is to be subject to the prohibition ?

Emission limits or prohibitions on hazardous air pollutants and effluent limitations on toxic wastewater discharges have been adopted.

Free speech is subject to prohibition of those abuses of expression which a civilized society may forbid.

The cats too, were under prohibition , confined to quarters.

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