Happenstances
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Happenstances, can be crudely interpreted as circumstances changed and moulded by time. 'The accident of time has cheated him even as in human affairs generally, be it individual or collective, fortune ebbs and flows, influenced critically by happenstances of time and circumstances of life' [Charles K. Skaria v. C. Mathew, AIR 1980 SC 1230 (1239), para 27]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
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