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Special legislation

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Any legislation which is arbitrary, which deals with particular persons or things of a class, or which confers privileges or burdens on towns or cities, while other cities or towns in like situation are excepted from its operation.

See 21 Am. St. Rep. 788, note.