Specialty

An instrument under seal

Debts by " specialty," or special contract, are debts whereby a sum of money becomes or is acknowledged to be due by deed or instrument under seal; as, by deed of covenant, by deed of sale, by lease reserving rent, or by bond or obligation.* A specialty is any sealed contract or obligation; a special contract as distinguished from an oral or ' Hannibal & St. Joseph E. Co. v. Missouri River Packet Co., 125 U. S. 260, 270 (1888), Lamar, J. The defendant, in the court below, recovered §5,300 for damages to steamboats, caused by striking the piers of the bridge. ''See4N.

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70. verbal contract, a parol or unsealed contract, and a contract or obligation of record."

See Contract, Special; Covenant; Deeu, 2; Seal, 1.