praescriptivus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

praescriptīvus, a, um, adj. [praescribo, II. B.],

of or relating to a legal exception or demurrer (post-class.): praescriptivae quaestiones, Jul. Vict. Art. Rhet. 3, 10: quaestiunculae, id. ib. 4, 1: praescriptivum praecedens, Sulp. Viet. Inst. Or. p. 282. —Adv.: praescriptīvē , with an exception (eccl. Lat.): occurrere, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 1.