A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
A written command, especially a demand for payment.
A rate or tax set by a precept.
To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
A duplicate copy of a legal document.
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.