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Private statute

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A statute which operates only upon particular persons, and private concerns.

1 Bl. Comm. 86.

An act which relates to certain individuals, or to particular classes of men.

Dwar. St. 629; State v. Chambers, 93 N. C. 600.