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Hazardous Contract

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A contract in which the performance of that which is one of its objects depends on an uncertain event. Civ. Code La. art.

1769; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 707; 1 J. J. Marsh (Ky.) 596; 3 J. J. Marsh. (Ky.) 84.

See "Maritime Loan." HE, or HIS. The use of the masculine pronoun is not, as a rule of construction, conclusive that only males are embraced thereby.

71 Cal. 38.