 | 1903 - 790 pages
...OF ACCIDENT INSURANCE THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has defined an accident as " an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected." * A policy of accident insurance has been defined as an agreement to indemnify the insured for disability... | |
 | Hugh Mortimer Spalding - 1903 - 718 pages
...PRACTICE; REMEDIES. AN ACCIDENT is th.it which takes place with. out one's expectation or foresight; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause ; or is an unusual effect from a known cause, and therefore not expected. It is the happening of an event without the concurrence... | |
 | Edward Voigt, Charles Voigt - 1904 - 836 pages
...insurance and the reader is referred to that subject. An accident has been defined to be "an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation;...effect of a known cause, and, therefore, not expected." An accident excludes the idea of volition or intention on the part of the person injured. It is something... | |
 | 1904 - 1034 pages
..."Otherwise." Fortuitous accident, see "Fortuitous." "An accident is a coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency." Webst Dict Henry v. Grand Ave. R. Co.,... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1905 - 1368 pages
...meaning of the term accident. The definition approved by one court is that "an accident is an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency. And "accident" signifies, happening by chance or unexpectedly, taking place not according to the usual... | |
 | 1905 - 1074 pages
...to the primary definition thereof as given in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, is : "An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected." If, as stated by plaintiff's counsel in his brief, "it is a well-known fact that trolley poles jump... | |
 | Charles Lyman Greene - 1905 - 492 pages
...lexicographers aslGcnerij being " an event that takes place without one's foresight or ex- dennitionpectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or...therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency." — Webster. Anything that happens ; an occurrence ; event. Especially anything occurring unexpectedly,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1906 - 1108 pages
...to the primary definition thereof, as given in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, is: "An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation;...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected." If, as stated by plaintiffs' counsel in his brief, "It is a wellknown fact that trolley poles jump... | |
 | American Gas Institute - 1907 - 1050 pages
...etc., and keep open a free passage to them. ACCIDENTS. 210. Webster says "an accident is an event which takes place without one's foresight or expectation...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected." 211. Most accidents are the result of a lack of foresight. ^Therefore it is up to you, when performing... | |
 | Anthony Jennings Bledsoe - 1907 - 664 pages
...unknown cause, or happening without the design of the agent." Webster's definition is, "An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation...effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected." The definition of "accident" generally adopted is, an event happening without any human agency, or,... | |
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