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Prescription vs Appendant - What's the difference?

prescription | appendant |

In lang=en terms the difference between prescription and appendant

is that prescription is a period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished while appendant is an inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

prescription

English

(wikipedia prescription)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc. .
    • "Jurisdiction to prescribe " is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
  • (legal) A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
    • The prescription governing the victim’s right to enter a charge shall be interrupted by virtue of section 95 of the Criminal Code.
  • (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
    • The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
  • (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
    • The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription .
  • (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc. .
    • The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • A piece of advice.
    • "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a drug, etc. ) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
    • Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

    See also

    * proscription ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)

    • appendant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • attached as an appendage
  • annexed; concomitant
    • a seal appendant to a paper
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  • (legal) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
    • (Wharton)
    (Coke)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • (legal) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
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