ADVENTURE (from

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Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)  , chance, and especially chance of danger ; so a hazardous enterprise or remarkable incident . Thus an " adventurer," from meaning one who takes part in some speculative course of action, came to mean one who lived by his wits and a person of no character . The word is also used in certain restricted legal connexions . Joint adventure, for instance, may be distinguished from partnership (q.v.) . A bill of adventure in maritime law (now apparently obsolete) is a writing signed by the shipmaster declaring that goods shipped in his name really belong to another, to whom he is responsible . The bill of gross adventure in French maritime law is an instrument making a loan on maritime security .