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Latin: 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, … [Read more...] about SPECIFICATIO

(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

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

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

See damages. … [Read more...] about SPECIALS