Meaning of præscription | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of prescription.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 26: Of Civill Lawes; excerpt-reprinted in:”

“If the Soveraign of one Common-wealth, subdue a People that have⟳ lived under other written Lawes, and afterwards govern them by the same Lawes, by which they were governed before; yet those Lawes are the Civill Lawes of the Victor, and not of the Vanquished Common-wealth. For the Legislator is he, not by whose authority the Lawes were first made, but by whose authority they now continue⟳ to be Lawes. And therefore where there be divers Provinces, within the Dominion of a Common-wealth, and in those Provinces diversity of Lawes, which commonly are called the Customes of each severall Province, we are not to understand⟳ that such Customes have⟳ their force⟳, onely from Length of Time; but that they were antiently Lawes written, or otherwise made known, for the Constitutions, and Statutes of their Soveraigns; and are not Lawes, not by vertueof the Præscription of time, but by the Constitutions of their present⟳ Soveraigns. But if an unwritten Law, in all the Provinces of a Dominion, shall be generally observed, and no iniquity appear⟳ in the use⟳ thereof; that Law can be no other but a Law of Nature, equally obliging all man-kind.”

“PRÆSCRIPTION.”

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