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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Relating to a species, to a single sort or kind. Special agent: an agent appointed or constituted for a special purpose. Special bail: bail to the action, given as a security to abide the event Special case: v. Case. Special contract: a contract in writing under seal. Special damages: damages which do not necessarily result from the injury complained of. Special demurrer: a demurrer based on some defect of form, which is specially set forth. Special injunction: an injunction by which parties are restrained from committing waste, damage or injury to property. Special issue: an issue upon a special plea. Special jury: a jury ordered on the motion of either party, in cases of unusual importance or intricacy. Special occupant: a person having a special right to enter on and occupy lands granted pur auter vie, on the death of the tenant, and during the life of cestui que vie. Special plea: a special kind of plea in bar, consisting usually of some new affirmative matter. Spedenomination of the science of pleading. ity; a limited partner. Special to a particular business, or a particular a property of a qualified or temporary granted on the motion of counsel traverse or denial, the design of which, mon traverse, is to explain or qualify it in the direct and absolute form. ing of facts, leaving to the court the facts found.

In English law

Special bastard: a parents who afterwards intermarry. whose occupation is to give opinions in writing, and to draw pleadings and may be out of the usual course. of the justices of the peace, held, for special purposes. In Scots law. Special service: that is served to the ancestor who was