Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Specialty

1 See contract under seal under CONTRACT. 2. See DOCTRINE OF SPECIALTY. 3. Eminent domain. Unique property (such as a church or cemetery) that is essentially not marketable, so that its value for condemnation purposes is determined by measuring the property's reproduction cost less any depreciation. - Also termed (in sense 3) specialty property.

Specialty bar

a voluntary bar association for lawyers with special interests, specific backgrounds, or common practices.

debt by specialty contract

See special-contract debt.

doctrine of specialty

Int'l law. The principle, included as a provision in most extradition treaties, under which a person who is extradited to a country to stand trial for certain criminal offenses may be tried only for those offenses and not for any other pre-extradition offenses. - Also termed specialty doctrine. See EXTRADITION.

specialty bar

See BAR.

specialty contract

See contract under seal under CONTRACT.

specialty contract.

See contract under seal.

specialty debt

See special-contract debt under DEBT.

specialty doctrine

See DOCTRINE OF SPECIALTY.

specialty property

See SPECIALTY (3).