PRAESCRIPTIS VERBIS

praescriptis verbis (pri-skrip-tis v[schwa]r-bis). [Latin “in the words before written”] 1. Roman law. An action on a bilateral agreement under which one party had performed and required the other to perform in turn. 2. Roman law. The grounds given for the existence of a contract that falls into the class later described as innominate. • […]