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Prescription \Pre*scrip"tion\, n. [F. prescription, L. praescriptio, an
inscription, preface,
precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr. praescribere. See Prescribe.]
1. The act of
prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which
is prescribed.
2. (Med.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the
manner of using
them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.
3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue
immemorial use and
enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time
and in the manner
fixed by law. --Bacon.
That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic
of
Englishmen. --Macaulay.
Note: Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage, while prescription
is
personal, annexed to the person only. Prescription only extends to incorporeal
rights, such
as aright of way, or of common. What the law gives of common rights is
not the subject of
prescription. Blackstone. Cruise. Kent. In Scotch law, prescription is
employed in the
sense in which limitation is used in England and America, namely, to express
that
operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or
title protected. Sir
T. Craig. Erskine.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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