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Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known. Act Cong. July 4, 1836, § 6, requires the inventor or discoverer of an invention or discovery to accompany his petition and specification for a patent with specimens of ingredients, and of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention or discovery is of the composition of matter.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A sample; a part of something intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, Pcople v. Freeman, 1 Idaho, 322.