special act

noun

1. a legislative act that applies only to specific persons or to a specific area.

Example Sentences

It is clear, however, that a wish to do readily what belongs to God's service is a special act.

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In the midst of these complications, Parliament, by a special act, abolished the charter of the African Company.

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It must not seize by a special act the property of the humblest individual, without making him an equivalent.

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Then he goes back and says it is all a mistake and each animal is the product of a special act on the part of the Creator.

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By special act of the Alabama legislature he was given civil rights and at once he became a slave owner.

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