Unavoidable accident
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 10 U.S. 307 - Durousseau v. United States · 1810Most cited · 82 citing opinions
loss preventing relanding
It must be such a loss as necessarily prevents the party from complying with the condition of the bond. It is not necessary that it should be an actual destruction of the property, but such a loss only as necessarily prevents the relanding of the goods.
How often courts cite the case defining “Unavoidable accident”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Unavoidable accident” — 82 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.