Pro·hi·bi·tion n.
 1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
    The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions.   --Tillotson.
 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
 Writ of prohibition Law, a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it.
 Note: ☞ By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.

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 writ of prohibition
      n : a judicial writ from a higher court ordering a lower court
          not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case