Debt by specialty
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A debt due, or acknowledged to be due, by some deed or instrument under seal; as a deed of covenant or sale, a lease' reserving rent, or a bond or obligation.
2 Bl. Comm. 465; Kerr v. Ly-decker, 51 Ohio St. 240, 37 N. E. 267, 23 In R. A. 842; Marriott v. Thompson, Willes, 189.