 | Cornelius Walford - 1871 - 736 pages
...property. — Chambers. An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event that proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect...therefore not expected ; chance, casualty, contingency. — Webster. Accident excludes the idea of design. — Worcester. An extraordinary incident ; something... | |
 | 1872 - 406 pages
...— addition ; augmentation. Accident, (ak'se-dent) n. [L. accident, from ad and cadere, to fall.] An event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or...therefore not expected ; chance ; casualty ; contingency. Acclaim, (ak-klam') vt [L. acclamare, from ad and ctamare, to ery aloud.] To honour or meet with applause... | |
 | English language - 1872 - 426 pages
...— addition ; augmentation. Accident, (ak'se-dent) n. [L. accidens, from ad and cadere, to fall.] An event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or...therefore not expected ; chance ; casualty ; contingency. Acclaim, (ak-klum') v, t. [L. acclamare, from ad and clamare, to ery aloud.] To honour or meet with... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1873 - 802 pages
...Accident Insurance Co. v. Purroughg. injury is caused by a strain or blow ? An accident is " an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation;...therefore not expected; chance, casualty, contingency." And accidental signifies, " happening by chance or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the... | |
 | George Bliss - 1874 - 826 pages
...violence, casualty or vis major to the assured, without his design or assent or voluntary co-operation,6 an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected ; it may happen from an unknown cause, but it is not essential that the cause should be unknown.7 §... | |
 | 1906 - 1050 pages
...to be: 143F.— 18 "An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event that proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a kuown cause, and therefore not expected." It cannot be contended that the action of the insured in... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 736 pages
...cadence, casual, decadence, Ac. J 1. Chance or what happens by chance; an event which proceeds from on unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; often in the sense of an unforeseen and undesigned injury to human life or limb; casualty; mishap:... | |
 | James Biggs Porter - 1884 - 588 pages
...American Life and Accident Co. v. Burroughs (8 Ain. Rep. 216), accident ia defined as "an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...therefore not expected ; chance, casualty, contingency." In Sinclair's case (rf), accident was defined as including violence, casualty, and ins major, but not... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - 880 pages
...event, incident, casualty, chance. And by Webster, an event that takes place without one's forethought or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown...therefore not expected; chance, casualty, contingency. In view of the unquestioned facts the death of the intestate was accidental. The danger was unknown.... | |
 | 1884 - 542 pages
...event, incident, casualty, chance. And by Webster, an event that takes place without one's forethought or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown...therefore not expected ; chance, casualty, contingency. In view of the unquestioned facts the death of the intestate was accidental. The danger was unknown.... | |
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