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• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

ACCIDENT (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. accidere, to happen)  , a word of widely variant meanings, usually something fortuitous and unexpected; a happening out of the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary course of things . In the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of See also:

• TORT (Fr. for wrong, from Lat. tortus, twisted, participle of torquere)

tort, it is defined as " an occurrence which is due neither to See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design nor to See also:

• NEGLIGENCE (Lat. negligentia, from negligere, to neglect, literally " not to pick up ")

negligence "; in See also:

• EQUITY (Lat. aequitas)

equity, as " such an unforeseen event, misfortune, loss, See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act or omission, as is not the result of any negligence or misconduct." So, in criminal law, " an effect is said to be accidental when the act by which it is caused is not done with the intention of causing it, and when its occurrence as a consequence of such act is not so probable that a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person of ordinary prudence ought, under the circumstances, to take reasonable precaution against it " (See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen, See also:

• DIGEST

Digest of Criminal Law, See also:

• ART

art . 210) . The word may also have in law the more extended meaning of an unexpected occurrence, whether caused by any one's negligence or not, as in the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, See also:

• NOTICE

Notice of Accidents Act 1894 . See also See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

CONTRACT, CRIMINAL LAW, EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY, See also:

• INSURANCE

INSURANCE, TORT, &C . In See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic an " See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident " is a quality which belongs to a subject but not as See also:

• PART

part of its essence in Aristotelian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language Kara ovj . 3e(3nKbs, the scholastic per accidens) . Essential attributes are necessarily, or causally, connected with the subject, e.g. the sum of the angles of a triangle; accidents are not deducible from the nature, or are not part of the necessary See also:

• CONNOTATION

connotation, of the subject, e.g. the See also:

• AREA

area of a triangle . It follows that in-creased knowledge, e.g. in See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry, may show that what was thought to be an accident is really an essential attribute, or See also:

• VICE

vice versa . It is very generally held that, in reality, there is no such thing as an accident, inasmuch as See also:

• COMPLETE

complete knowledge would establish a causal connexion for all attributes . An accident is thus merely an unexplained attribute . Accidents have been classed as (1) " inseparable," i.e. universally See also:

• PRESENT

present, though no causal connexion is established, and (2) " separable," where the connexion is neither causally explained nor universal .

Propositions expressing a relation between a subject and an accident are classed as " accidental," " real " or " See also:

• AMPLIATIVE (from Lat. ampliare, to enlarge)

ampliative," as opposed to " verbal " or " See also:

• ANALYTICAL

analytical," which merely See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express a known connexion, e.g. between a subject and its connotation (q.v.) .