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When a jury determines the answer to a specific question of fact contained within the pleadings. Practice. A special verdict is one by which the facts of the case are put on the record, and the law is submitted to the judges. … [Read more...] about SPECIAL VERDICT

One selected in a particular way by the parties. A panel is made out, and each party is entitled to strike from it the names of a certain number of jurors, as provided for by the local statutes, and from those who remain, the jury in that case must be selected. This is also called a struck jury. … [Read more...] about SPECIAL JURY

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

estates. When an estate is granted to a man and his heirs during the life, of cestui que vie, and the grantee die without alienation, and while the life for which he held continues, the heir will succeed, and is called a special occupant. 2 Bl. Com. 259. In the United States the statute provisions of the different states vary considerably upon this subject. In New York and New … [Read more...] about SPECIAL OCCUPANT