Circumstances
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A principal fact or cvont being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences whieh attend upon it, which closely precede or follow it, which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it, or which support or qualify it. The terms “circumstance” and “fact” are, in many applications, synonymous; but the true ciato any other fact.”
1 Benth, Jud. Evid. 42, note; Id. 142.
Thrift, integrity, good repute, business capacity, and stability of character, for example, are “circumstances” which may be very properly corsidered in determining the question of “adequate security.”
5 Redf. Sur. 600.