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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 274 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRECEPT (See also:Lat. praeceptum, a See also:rule, from praecipere, literally to take beforehand, to give rules, instructions or orders)  , a command or See also:rule, especially one with regard to conduct or See also:action, a moral rule or See also:injunction, a See also:maxim . Apart from this See also:general use, the word was used, in See also:law, of many orders in See also:writing issuing from a See also:court or other legal authority; it is now chiefly used of an See also:order demanding the See also:payment of See also:money under a See also:rate by poor law or other See also:local authorities (see RATE) . The Latin See also:form praecipe, i.e. enjoin, command, is used of the See also:note of instructions delivered by a See also:plaintiff or his See also:solicitor to be filed by the officer of the court, giving the names of the plaintiff and See also:defendant, the nature of the See also:writ, &c . For the obsolete writ of praecipe quad reddat see WRIT .

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