To hinder or preclude. To stop or Intercept the approach, access, or performance of a thing, webster; U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed..Cas. 1,269; Green v. State, 109 Ga. 536, 35 S. E. 97; Burr v. williams. 20 Ark. 171; In . re Joues, 78 Ala. 421
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
