RESCRIPTS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESCRIPTS, civ. law. The answers of the prince at the request of the parties 
  respecting some matter in dispute between them, or to magistrates in 
  relation to some doubtful matter submitted to him. 
       2. The rescript was differently denominated, according to the character 
  of those who sought it. They were called annotations or subnotations, when 
  the answer was given at the request of private citizens; letters or 


  epistles, when he answered the consultation of magistrates; pragmatic 
  sanctions, when he answered a corporation, the citizens of a province, or a 
  municipality. Lecons El. du Dr. Rom. Sec. 53; Code, 1, 14, 3.