Aventure
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or ADVENTURE. A mischance causing the death of a man, as by drowning, or being killed suddenly without felony. Co. Litt. 391; Whishaw.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A mischance causing the death of a man, as by drowning, or being killed suddenly without felony. Co. Litt. 391; Whishaw.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
aventera, I. fr. A mischance of a man is occasioned without felony.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
or ADVENTURE. A mischince causing the death of a man, as where a person is suddenly drowned or killed by any accident, without felony. Co. Litt. aol.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Fr. [from avener, to happen.] A mischance or accident by which th( the death of a man is occasioned without felony, as by some sudden illness, by falling into the water, or into the fire. Britt, c. 7. Britton makes a distinction between aventure and mesaventure (q. v.)