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specialty

specialty pl: -ties 1 from the special form of the contract

Specialty debts

Specialty debts, bonds mortgages, debts, secured by writing under seal, and

Specialty

Specialty, a contract by deed.

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Extent

on Judgment, statute or recognizance, inquisition of debt, obligation, or specialty, or acceptance of office, shall affect any lands, tenements, or

Hinde Palmer's Act

& 33 Vict. c. 46), which abolished the priority of specialty (see SPECIALTY) over simple contract debts in the administration of

Nil debet

issue in all actions of debt not founded on a specialty. This plea was not allowed after Reg. Gen. T.T. 1853

Retainer of debts

of Estates Act, 1869, the right may be exercised against specialty as well as simple contract creditors [Re Hariss, (1914) 2

Rent

degree than simple contract debts, and of equal degree with specialty debts; but that Act has abolished the priority, see Shirreff

Record, Debts of

as a judgment, recognizance, etc. Since 1st January, 1870, all specialty and simple contract debts of deceased persons stand in equal

Priority

instrument under seal, or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt. The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable

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