pleading. A technical special traverse begins in most cases, with the words absque hoc, (without this,) which words in pleading form a technical form of negation. 2. A traverse commencing with these words is special, because, when it thus commences, the inducement and the negation are regularly both special; the former consisting of new matter, and the latter pursuing, in … [Read more...] about SPECIAL TRAVERSE
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SPEAKING ORDER
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SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR
A method of compounding an offense, allowed in the English practice, where the court permits a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor to speak with the prosecutor before judgment is pronounced; if the prosecutor declares himself satisfied, the court may Inflict a trivial punishment. 4 Steph. Comm. 261. … [Read more...] about SPEAKING WITH PROSECUTOR
SPECIAL
Relating to or designating a species, kind, or sort; designed for a particular purpose; confined to a particular purpose, object, person, or class. The opposite of "general." Special act. A private statute; an act which operates only upon particular persons or private concerns. 1 Bl. Comm. 86; Unity v. Burrage, 103 U. S. 454, 26 L. Ed. 405. Special case. In English practice. … [Read more...] about SPECIAL
SOWLEGROVE
February; so called In South Wales. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SOWLEGROVE