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Specificatio

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Civil Law. The process by which, from material either of one kind or different kinds, either belonging to the person using them or to another, a new form or thing is created; as, if from gold or gold and silver a cup be made, or from grapes wine. Calvinus, Lex. Whether the property in the new article was in the owner of the materials or in him who effected the change was a matter of contest between the two great sects of Roman lawyers. Stair, Inst, p. 204, § 41; Mackeldey, Civ. Law § 241.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat In the civil law. Literally, a making of form; a giving of form to materials. That mode of acquiring property through which a person, by transforming a thing belonging to another, especially by working up his materials into a new species, becomes proprietor of the same. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 27L

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In the civil law. A to materials; the mode of acquiring thing belonging to another.