Evenings
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English law
The delivery at even or night of a certain portion of grass, or corn, elc., to a customary as a gratuity or encouragement. Kennett, Gloss. Eventus est qui ex caus& sequitur; et dicitur eventus quia ex causis evenit.
9 Coke, 81.
An event is that which follows from the eause, and.is called an “event” because it eventuates from causes. Eventus varios res nova semper habet.
Co. Litt. 379.
A new matter alwaya produces various events. Every man must be taken to contemplate the probable consequences of the act he does.
Lord Ellenborough, 9 East, 277.
A fundamental maxim in the law of evidence, Best, Pres. § 16; 1 Phil. Ev, 444.