rescript

rescript definitions

• A rewriting, a document copied or written again. 

• A duplicate copy of a legal document. 

• A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate. 

• 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. 

• To script again or anew.