Aventure
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.)