special act

1. 1.

   a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district

   Broaderlegislative act

   law

Questions about special act

What does special act mean?

special act means "a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district".

Is special act a common word?

special act is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.