title_body: How can a node verify a transaction with a script address without the script? How can a node verify a transaction with a script address without the script?
  I mean when i start a node months after the transaction has been minted into a block. How can my node verify that the script conditions were met since only the hash is persisted in the chain?
upvoted_answer: By inspecting the current ledger CDDL specifications, you can see that each block contains a transaction_witness_sets field, where each transaction_witness_set is defined as:
  transaction_witness_set =
    { ? 0: [* vkeywitness ]
    , ? 1: [* native_script ]
    , ? 2: [* bootstrap_witness ]
    }
  
  Here, native_script, if present, contains some rules that need to be respected in order for the transaction to be valid (for instance, some minting policy):
  native_script =
    [ script_pubkey
    // script_all
    // script_any
    // script_n_of_k
    // invalid_before
       ; Timelock validity intervals are half-open intervals [a, b).
       ; This field specifies the left (included) endpoint a.
    // invalid_hereafter
       ; Timelock validity intervals are half-open intervals [a, b).
       ; This field specifies the right (excluded) endpoint b.
    ]
  
  So not only the script hash is included in the chain, but also the actual rules it contains.