 | Hal W. Hendrick, Brian Kleiner - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 415 pages
...Cognitively complex conceptual functioning characterized by a high degree of differentiation and integration. Accident: 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 known cause, and therefore not expected.... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 220 pages
...Language: A Facsimile of the First (18o6) Edition Accident, n. [1. accidens.} 1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight...expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected ... 3. An unfortunate event, occurring... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1284 pages
...provision of section 1664, clearly entitle the petitioner to a new trial. Webster defines accident as an event that takes place without one's foresight...cause, and therefore not expected; chance, casualty, contingency. The word has often received Judicial construction. In Bostwlck v. Stiles, 35 Conn. 108,... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1892 - 454 pages
...amonut. Judge Adams of this city ruled that rupture was not an accident. Webster defines an accident as " an event that takes place without one's foresight...expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of a known cause and therefore not expected. " No one supposes the gentleman... | |
 | John Allen Finch - Insurance law - 1920 - 592 pages
...was not an unusual day for that time of the year at that place. Held, That "accident" is defined as "an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation"; "an event that is an unusual effect of a known cause and therefore not expected;" it is not the fact of getting... | |
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an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation ; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and, therefore, not expected. 
