title: Restraint
text: # Restraint
  
  Restraint may refer to:
  
  ## A form of control
  
  * Restraint, or self-control, a personal virtue
  * Medical restraint, form of general physical restraint used for medical purposes
  * Physical restraint, the practice of rendering people helpless or keeping them in captivity by means such as handcuffs, ropes, straps, etc.
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Restraint (book), a non-fiction book on international relations by Barry Posen
  * Restraint (2008 film), an Australian thriller directed by David Deenan
  * Restraint (2017 film), an American horror directed by Adam Cushman
  
  ## Legal terminology
  
  * Judicial restraint, a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the exercise of their own power
  * Prior restraint, a government's actions that prevent materials from being distributed
  * Restraint on alienation, in property law, a clause that seeks to prohibit the recipient of property from transferring his or her interest
  * Restraint of trade, a restriction on a person's freedom to conduct business
  * Vertical restraints, agreements between firms or individuals at different levels of the production and distribution process
  