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Inhibitio(u)n, n. Also: -icio(u)n, inhibetion, inhybytyowne, (inibictioun). [ME. inhibicioun (1387), OF. inibicion, med. (and rare class.) L. inhibitio.]

1. The action of inhibiting or forbidding; prohibition, espec. as imposed by an authority. Freq. in phrases to mak(e, gif, put inhibitioun to (a person). a1400 Leg. S. xlii. 188.
Thane gert he put hire in presone & mad strat inhibicione That na man acces suld hafe [etc.] 14.. Acts I. 334/2.
At thai tak smoltis in the myll stank again the inhibicioun of law c1420 Wynt. v. 3668.
I mak thé inhybytyowne In Goddys kyrk to mak entre 1456 Hay I 190/22.
He mycht mak him inhibicioun and exhortacioun to nocht mak sic unlikly repaire 1506 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 101.
Quhair ony maner of personis … dois incontrair this our proclamatioun and inhibitioun 1513 Reg. Privy S. 379/2.
With inhibetion to the schireffs … to desist … of all poinding of thaim for the said malez 1550 Reg. Privy C. I. 87.
To putt inhibitioun to the capitanis … that naine of thame tak upon hand [etc.] 1567 Dundee B. Laws 33.
What nighbour of this brugh desires inhibitione of ane baillie to be put to his nighbouris wark a1578 Pitsc. I. 48/9.
Earle James, … wnderstanding that the king … was to put inhibitioun to this marieage

b. A prohibition issued formally by an authority. Also, letter, lettres, of inhibitioun. 1471 Ayr Chart. 36.
In contrar the privilege … forsaid with inhibitioun grantit to thair predecessouris 1479 Acta Aud. 88/1.
Thai herd lettres of inhibitioun of our souuerain lord to haue cessit the seruing of the said breue 1516 Treas. Acc. V. 82.
To pas with ane letter of inhibitioun to the werkaris in the goldin mynd 1562 St. A. Kirk S. 179.
The Superintendent inhibitis the sayd Johane [etc.] … [&] ordenis inhibicionis in wryt to be direc to all kyrkis necessar to the same effect

2. spec. a. A writ passing the signet, prohibiting a debtor from contracting a debt or granting a deed whereby any part of his heritage may be attached or alienated to the prejudice of a creditor inhibiting. c1575 Balfour Pract. 185.
Inhibitioun being raisit be ane man aganis ane uther, and he lauchfullie chargit [etc.] 1581 Acts III. 223/2.
Anent registratioun of inhibitionis and interdictionis 1602 Misc. Spald. C. V. 130.
For rasing of letteris of inhibitioun agains the Laird of Cultir at the townis instance 1618 Haddington Corr. 137.
Sir George Hamiltounis rights gifin be my sone to him of the eirldoume with the comprysingis, inibictiouns, and arrestments vpone my holle landis a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 128.
He … may not buy nor block with him except he seek the register for inhibitions 1684 Decis. Lords F. 53.
In relation to the ground lybelled, he was not any ways certiorat, in relation to the inhibition

b. ‘A writ issuing under the signet, by which the titular of teinds is enabled to interrupt the possession of a tenant of the teinds possessing by tacit relocation’ (Bell's Sc. Law Dict.) c1575 Balfour Pract. 477.
Gif ony man makis payment of his teindis to ane uther, efter lauchful inhibitioun maid to him in the contrare a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 225.
The lords faund that the peyment of taxation for teynds to the bishop of Galloway … tuik away the inhibition usit be the bisbop as prior of Whythorne

c. See also Interdictioun n.