Special property
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Property of a qualified, temporary, or limited nature ; as distinguished from absolute, general, or unconditional property. Such is the property of a bailee in the article bailed, of a sheriff in goods temporarily in his hands under a levy, of the finder of lost goods while looking for the owner, of a person in wild animals which he has caught.
Stief v. Hart, 1 N. Y. 24; Moulton v. Witherell, 52 Me. 242; Eisendrath v. Knaiier, 64 111. 402; Phelps v. People, 72 N. Y. 357.