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big bang
The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe according to big bang theory the beginning of time
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
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
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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
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,
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
cause
in this entry procuring cause : one (as a broker) that sets in motion a continuous series of events culminating esp. in the sale or leasing of real estate [entitled to a commission as the procuring cause
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
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
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