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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

In commerce. The act or practice of buying lands, goods, etc.. in expectation of a rise of price and of selling them at an advance, as distinguished from a regular trade, in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in the place where the goods are purchased, and the place where they are to be carried for … [Read more...] about SPECULATION

Term to describe the special needs that a person with disabilities requires and which is provided by SSI (Supplemental Security Income.) … [Read more...] about SPECIAL NEEDS

The name of a plea by which the defendant says that the deed which he has executed is not his own or binding upon him, because of some circumstance which shows that it was not intended to be his deed, or because it was not binding upon him for some lawful reason; as, when the defendant delivered the deed to a third person as an escrow to be delivered upon a condition, and it … [Read more...] about SPECIAL NON EST FACTUM