Rescription
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In French law. A rescription is a letter by which the maker requests some one to pay a certain sum of money, or to account for him to a third law. To rescue. Rescussit, he rescued. Reg. 225. According to this definition, bills of exchange are a species of rescription. The difference appears to be this, that a bill of exchange is given when there has been a contract of exchange between the drawer and the payee; whereas the rescription is sometimes given in payment of a debt, and at other times it is lent to the payee.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In French law. A re-scription is a letter by which one requests some one to pay a certain sum of money or to account for him to a third person for it. Poth. Cont de Change, no. 225.