interdict list

Esp. B.C.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a list of persons who have been placed under legal restraint in the buying, selling, or consuming of liquor.

Quotations

1963

By placing [drunken drivers] on the interdict list he is invoking a form of prohibition adopted by the courts as far back as 1579.

1963

. . . there are between 4,500 and 5,000 British Columbians on the interdict list now.

1966

He believed it is the first time in the history of the province that an entire Indian community will be placed on the interdict list.