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Eventless

Without events tame monotonous marked by nothing unusual uneventful

bond

defendant's property that ensures payment to the defendant of any damages suffered because of the attachment in the event the plaintiff loses the suit 2 : a bond given by a defendant in order to have an

loss

beyond recovery d : the amount of an insured's financial detriment due to the occurrence of a stipulated event (as death, injury, destruction, or damage) in such a manner as to create liability in the insurer under

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Accident

Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction,

Conditional fee

of Property Act, 1925, s. 8) is marked, as to its duration or time of continuance, by an event beyond which it is not to endure. The event is the qualification which gives a name to this

Remainder

matris, 10 & 11 Wm. 3 c. 16. (4) A contingent remainder must be limited, upon a legal event, to some one that may by common possibility be in being, at or before the determina-tion of the

Wager

Wager, a contract by A. to pay money to B. on the happening of a given event, in consideration of B. paying money to him on the event not happening; and see the elaborate definition

Settled land

[sub-s. (iii.)] limited in trust for any person for a legal estate contingently on the happening of any event, or [sub-s. (iv.)] limited or in trust for a married woman of full age in possession for a

Notification

in common English acceptation mean and imply a formal announcement of a legally relevant fact and in the event of a Statute speaking of a Notification being published in the Official Gazette, the same cannot but mean

Actus reus

It is important to note that the actus reus, which is the result of conduct, and therefore an event, must be distinguished from the conduct which produced the result. For example, in a simple case of murder

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