INTERDICTION

interdiction, in scots law, a process of restraint applied to prodigals and others who, "from weakness, facility or profusion, are liable to imposition." it is either voluntary or judicial. voluntary interdiction is effected by the prodigal himself, who executes a bond obliging himself to do no deed which may affect his estate without the assent of certain persons called the "interdictors." this may be removed by the court of session, by the joint act of the interdictors and the interdicted, and by the number of interdictors being reduced below the number constituting a quorum. judicial interdiction is imposed by order of the court, either moved by an interested party or acting in the exercise of its _nobile officium_, and can only be removed by a similar order. deeds done by the interdicted person, so far as they affect or purport to affect his heritable estate, are reducible, unless they have been done with the consent of the interdictors. interdiction has no effect, however, on movable property. interesse termini (lat. for "interest in a term"), in law, an executory interest, being the right of entry which the grant of a lease confers upon a lessee. actual entry on the lands by the lessor converts the right into an estate. if the lease, however, has been created by a bargain and sale or by any other conveyance under the statute of uses, which does not require an entry, the term vests in the lessee at once. an _interesse termini_ gives a cause of action against any person through whose action entry by the lessee or delivery of possession to him may have been prevented. an _interesse termini_ is a right _in rem_, alienable at common law, and transmissible to the executors of the lessee.