rescript

Meanings

1. A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
2. An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
3. A duplicate copy of a legal document.
4. A rewriting, a document copied or written again.

1. To script again or anew.

Etymology

From Latin rescriptum (“written reply”).

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