specific denial
Specific denial is the defendant's denial of specific material facts asserted in the plaintiff's complaint; in other words, a denial of parts of an allegation in a complaint. Specific denial is a circumstance in which the defendant does not deny all of the claims, or denies all but the ones that have been accepted. The opposite concept is the general denial.
[Last reviewed in May of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]
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