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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

praescriptivus

of a demurrer or legal exception.]

(Law)

Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment;

as, a

prescriptive

right of title

; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become

prescriptive

J. M. Mason.

Adj.

Consisting in or acquired by immemorial use and enjoyment; as a prescriptive right or title.

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil, has become prescriptive.

Pleading the continuance and authority of custom.