PRESCRIPTIONS
Noun
prescriptions
plural of prescription
Source: Wiktionary
PRESCRIPTION
Pre*scrip"tion, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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)
Definition: 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 Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition