Having a certain form or designation; observing a certain form; particular; precise. Identified with precision or without ambiguity.As to specific "Denial," "Devise," "Legacy," and "Performance," see those titles. … [Read more...] about SPECIFIC
SPECIFIC BEQUEST
A gift of bequest of specified items. A bequest of a specific item of property left to a beneficiary named under a will, such as a meaningful gift made to a person important to the decedent. … [Read more...] about SPECIFIC BEQUEST
SPECULATE
1. To make a guess about what may occur or how much something may be worth. 2. To buy or sell high risk securities. … [Read more...] about SPECULATE
SPECIMEN
A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known. 2. The act of congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires the inventor or discoverer of an invention or discovery to accompany his petition and specification for a patent with specimens of ingredients, an of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention or … [Read more...] about SPECIMEN
SPECIFICATION
(A) civil law. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a person's making a new species or subject from materials belonging to another. 2. When the new species can be again reduced to the matter of which it was made, the law considers the former mass as still existing, and, therefore, the new species as an accessory to the former subject; but where the thing made cannot … [Read more...] about SPECIFICATION