INTERDICTION, in Scots law, a process of restraint applied to prodigals and others who, "from weakness, facility or profusion, are liable to imposition." Its only effect is to prevent the person interdicted from effectively alienating his heritable or real prop erty without the consent of his interdictors. It leaves him com petent to dispose of his moveables. Interdiction is either volun tary 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, or by the joint act of the interdictors and the interdicted, or 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. That the interdiction may be effective in questions with third parties it must be published in the appropriate registers.