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Webster 1913 Edition
Specialty
1.
Particularity.
Specialty
of rule hath been neglected. Shakespeare
2.
A particular or peculiar case.
[Obs.]
3.
(Law)
A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
Chitty.
Bouvier.
Wharton (Law Dict.).
Let
specialties
be therefore drawn between us. Shakespeare
4.
That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their
specialty
, their pet subject. C. Kingsley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Specialty
SPECIALTY
, n.1.
Particularity. specialty of rule hat been neglected.2.
A particular or peculiar case. Note. This word is now little used in the senses above. Its common acceptation is,3.
A special contract; an obligation or bond; the evidence of a debt by deed or instrument under seal. Such a debt is called a debt by specialty, in distinction from simple contract.