Condition
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
(NEGATIVE,) contracts. A negative condition is that which consists in the case where something that may or may not happen, shall, as, if J do not marry.
Poth. Obl. Pt. 2, c. 3, art. 1,91. eon