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hoped for

expected and desired Contrasted with unexpected

Inexpectation

Absence of expectation

Inopinate

Not expected or looked for

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Messiah

The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews the Savior Christ

Preeumlxpectation

Previous expectation

Respondent

Disposed or expected to respond answering according corresponding

Future estates

Future estates, expectancies, which are, at Common Law, of two kinds: reversions and remainders. If in land, these are now referred

Possibility

Possibility, expectation, an uncertain thing which may or may not happen. It is either near, or ordinary, as where an

Merger

Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into

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, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.

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