special term

noun

, Law.

1. the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
2. the sitting of a court at an extraordinary time.

Example Sentences

This name was Katie's special term of endearment, and never used except when they were alone; no one else ever called her by it.

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But one special term of the compact was that the outer world should have no acquaintance with things that happened between them.

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It has a special term of its own, being stated to be "in his pride" when shown affront, and with the tail displayed (Fig. 469).

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In this branch of the line the special term for this cousin, amitina, is also set aside for the descriptive phrase amit filia.

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The Democrats, in order to kill the banks, were bent on a sine die adjournment of the special term.

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