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SPECIAL DILIGENCE Definition & Legal Meaning

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The measure of diligence and skill exercised by a good business manin his particular specialty, which must be commensurate with the duty to be performedand the individual circumstances of the case; not merely the diligence of an ordinary’person or non-specialist. Brady v. Jefferson, 5 Iloust. (Del.) 79.In Scotch law and practice. Process of law, by which persons, lands, or effects areseized in execution or in security for debt. Ersk. Inst. 2, 11, 1. Brande. Process forBL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

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