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inventive (iou) and PRAECIPE or PRECIPE, practice (law)


inventive (iou)



inventive adjective. LME.
[French inventif, -ive or medieval Latin inventivus, formed as INVENT: see -IVE.]
Having the faculty of invention; original, apt, or quick in contriving or devising. Also foll. by of. LME.
G. Greene He had been too inventive; he had to draw the line..between what was real..and unreal.
Characterized by invention; produced by or showing original contrivance. E17.
J. Ruskin Great Art..must be inventive, that is, be produced by the imagination.
inventively adverb M19.
inventiveness noun M17.

PRAECIPE or PRECIPE, practice (law)


PRAECIPE or PRECIPE, practice. The name of the written instructions given by an attorney or plaintiff to the clerk or prothonotary of a; court, whose an attorney or plaintiff to the clerk or prothonotary of a; court, whose duty it is to make out the writ, for the making of the same. duty it is to make out the writ, for the making of the same.