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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.

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  1. a. 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.
  2. adj. pertaining to giving directives or rules
  3. 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.
  4. Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued useand enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading thecontinuance and authority of long custom.The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J.M. Mason.
  5. j:100 a. pertaining to giving directives or rules