Chance

"Pure chance consists in the absence of all means of calculating results." Morris (Iowa) 169. It is to be distinguished from "accident," which is "the unusual prevention of an effect naturally resulting from the means employed." Id. Chance is always undeterminable; _ it neither forms nor designs; intention is never attributed to it; its events are uncertain. 59 111. 165.

See Accident.

In criminal law. An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen or unintended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event The opposite of intention, design or contrivance. There is a wide difference between chance and accident. The one is the intervention of some unlooked-for circumstance to prevent an expected result; the other is the uncalculated effect of mere luck. The shot discharged at random strikes its object by chance; that which is turned aside from its well-directed nim by some unforeseen circumstance misses its mark by accident. Pure chance consists in the entire absence of nil the means of calculating results ; accident, in the up usual prevention of an effect naturally resulting from the means employed. Harless v. U. S.. Morris (Iowa) 173.

— Chance verdict. One determined by hazard or lot, and not by the deliberate understanding and agreement of the jury. Goodman v. Cody, 1 Wash. T. 335, 34 Am. Rep. 808; Dixon v. Pluns, 98 Cal. 384, 33 Pac. 268, 20 In R. A. 698, 35 Am. St. Rep. 180; Improvement Co., v. Adams, 1 Colo. App. 250, 28 Paa 662.

Accident; that which happens or falls out unexpectedly or unintentionally, v. Accident. Chance medley: a casual meeting or affray; the accidental killing a man in self-defense, in a sudden rencounter; a species of excusable homioida