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• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

ADVENTURE (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)  , See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance, and especially chance of danger ; so a hazardous enterprise or remarkable incident . Thus an " adventurer," from meaning one who takes See also:

• PART

part in some speculative course of See also:

• ACTION

action, came to mean one who lived by his wits and a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person of no See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . The word is also used in certain restricted legal connexions . See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

Joint See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure, for instance, may be distinguished from See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership (q.v.) . A See also:

• BILL

bill of adventure in maritime 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 (now apparently obsolete) is a See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing signed by the shipmaster declaring that goods shipped in his name really belong to another, to whom he is responsible . The bill of See also:

• GROSS

gross adventure in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French maritime law is an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument making a See also:

• LOAN (adapted from the Scandinavian form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Swed. Mn, Icel. lan, Dut. leen; the O.E. laen appears in " lend," the ultimate source is seen in the root of Gr. Xeiaecv and Lat. linquere, to leave)

loan on maritime See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security .