specificatio

specificatio [LL specificare+-tio] 1 act of causing or recognizing (thing) to be distinct or special: a (leg.) specification, the formation of a new species of property out of material belonging to another by converting it into a different form. b qualification, clarification (of word or sim. in respect of meaning, reference, significance or sim.). a adquiruntur ‥ res nobis per ~onem, ut si quis de aliena materia speciem aliquam sibi fecerit, factor dominus speciei Fleta 177 (= Bracton f. 10).  b verbum habere duas construcciones racione ~onis compositorum, personalem et compositivam sive copulativam Ps.-Gros. Gram. 64; hoc verbum ‥ denotat ~onem transire in aliud Bacon XV 168; objectum est principium quantum ad modificacionem seu ~onem actus Duns Ord. III 327. 2 specification, (act of) making precise or setting out explicitly or in detail, or precise, detailed, or explicit statement. s1253 abbas adquisivit a ‥ rege ‥ ~onem libertatum suarum in cartis regum Anglie sub generalibus verbis contentarum Chr. Peterb. 15; 1284 illi qui ad ~onem hujus articuli vos sollicitant faciendam Peckham Ep. 604; 1331 ad declaracionem et ~onem quarundam libertatum PQW 70b; 1462 alia expressio seu ~o (Lit. Papae) Mon. Hib. & Scot. 437b; ~o arreragii debet omitti in casu ubi impetrator nunquam fuit seisitus de consuetudinibus ‥ sed ejus antecessor Reg. Brev. Orig. f. 159.