Concept information

Preferred term

special law  

Definition

  • One relating to particular persons or things; one made for individual cases or for particular places or districts; one operating upon a selected class, rather than upon the public generally. A law is special when it is different from others of the same general kind or designed for a particular purpose, or limited in range or confined to a prescribed field of action or operation.

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URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/7978

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