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interdiction
Esp. B.C.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
legal restraint from buying, selling, or using liquor.
Quotations
1958
Interdiction is effective only in the smaller centers where the police know everyone.
1963
Interdiction then was a restraint imposed on a person incapable of managing his own affairs. In B.C. today it is a ban against the purchase, use or supply of liquor.