In French law. An exception or plea founded on law, which, without entering lnto the merits of the actlon, shows that the piaintiiE has no rigbt to bring it, either because the time dur-lng which it ought to have been brought has elapsed, which is called “prescription,” or that there has been a compromise, accord and satisfaction, or any other cause which has destroyed the right of action which once subsisted. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt 1, c. 2, $ 2, art. 2
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
