specialty

1. (obsolete) Particularity.Examples: "The specialty of rule hath been neglected: And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions."AustraliaCanadaUSobsolete

2. (law) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.Examples: "Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs, That couenants may be kept on either hand."; "1812, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes Thereon, 2nd American edition, edited by Thomas Day, New York, Volume 2, section 456, note c, […] in a plea to an action of debt on specialty, it is still necessary to show that the debt on which the judgment was recovered was a specialty, or to aver that the judgment was recovered before the defendant had notice of the plaintiff’s demand."AustraliaCanadaUS