Category:Prescriptive

Pre*scrip"tive, a. Etym: [l. praescriptivus of a demurrer or legal Exception.] (law)

Defn: 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.