interdict
the order made by a court for putting a stay on any unlawful proceeding.
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interdiction
this is a type of restraint imposed by a court, which usually takes the form of a bond; it is imposed by a court on (or assumed voluntarily by) a person who cannot handle his/her own affairs and therefore might be taken unfair advantage of, and its purpose is to prevent him/her from doing anything which might affect his/her estate, without the prior consent of those who are named in the bond.
interlocutors
judgements, orders or pronouncements of a court.
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intromission
taking up the possession and management of property belonging to someone else; it can be legal, when someone is designated as an ‘intromettor with the goods and gear’ of another, or illegal, when it is called ‘vicious intromission’ in which case an heir intromits with the moveable property of his ancestors without right.
intromit
to deal with, usually used for dealing with money or property; includes doing this without agreement, by intrusion.
intrusion
same idea as intromission, but has to do with heritable property not moveable property; it means taking up possession of heritables without any title to do so.