Misfortune
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
It is equivalent to some adverse event not Immediately dependent on the action or will of him who suffers from It, and of so improbable a character that no prudent man would take it into his calculations in reference to the Interest of himself or of others.
20 Q. B. Div. 816.