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Special privilege

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In constitutional law. A right, power, franchise, immunity, or privilege granted to, or vested in, a person or class of persons, to the exclusion of others, and in derogation of common right.

See City of Elk Point v. Vaughn, 1 Dak. 118, 46 N. W. 577; Ex parte DoUglass, 1 Utah, 111.