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Prescription \Pre*scrip"tion\ (pr[-e]*skr[i^]p"sh[u^]n), n. [F.
prescription, L. praescriptio, an inscription, preface,
precept, demurrer, prescription (in sense 3), fr.
praescribere. See {Prescribe}.]
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1. The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating;
direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
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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. Hence: a written order from a
physician for a medication, which allows a patient to
legally obtain medication which is required by law to be
dispensed only on authorization from a physician or other
qualified medical practitioner.
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3. (Law) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a
thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right
or title acquired by possession had during the time and in
the manner fixed by law. --Bacon.
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That profound reverence for law and prescription
which has long been characteristic of Englishmen.
--Macaulay.
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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 a right 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.
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Usucaption \U`su*cap"tion\ (?; 277), n. [L. usucapere,
usucaptum, to acquire by long use; usu (ablative of usus use)
capere to take: cf. usucapio usucaption.] (Roman Law)
The acquisition of the title or right to property by the
uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed
by law; -- the same as {prescription} in common law.
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