Prescription
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Prescription has various meanings.

• Under the civil law or civil code prescription are those periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable. Similar to the common law system concept of limitation periods.
• A medical prescription is an order by a medical doctor to a pharmacist for a drug to be provided to the doctor's patient.
• In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules of the language

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