Prescription

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Prescription has various meanings.

  • Linguistic prescription, the laying down of normative language rules
  • Prescription (law), a doctrine in international law about sovereignty over a territory
  • Period of Prescription, a civil law system analogue to the common law institute of a statute of limitations, applied to periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable
See also Proscription