Category:Specialty

Spe"cial*ty, n.; pl. Specialties. Etym: [f. spécialité. Cf. Speciality.]

1. Particularity. Specialty of rule hath been neglected. Shak.

2. A particular or peculiar case. [obs.]

3. (law)

Defn: a contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a Writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly Specified. Chitty. Bouvier. Wharton (law dict.). Let specialties be therefore drawn between us. Shak.

4. That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially Versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a Speciality. Men of boundless knowledge, like humbold, must have had once their Specialty, their pet subject. C. Kingsley.