Inevitable Accident
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with fortuitous event.
10 Miss. 572.
Any accident which cannot be foreseen and prevented. Though used as synonymous with "act of God," it would seem to have a wider meaning, including not only accidents resulting from natural forces, but those originating from human agencies.
4 Doug. 287, 290, per Lord Mansfield; 21 Wend. (N. Y.) 198, per Cowen, J.; 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 222; 2 Ga. 349; 10 Miss. 572; 1 Pars. Cont. 635; Whart. Neg. 553. ——In the Law of Maritime Collisions.
Inevitable accident, "an occurrence which the party charged with the collision could not possibly prevent by the exercise of ordinary care, caution, and maritime skill."
2 Wall. (U. S.) 550.
INFALISTATUS (Law Lat. from in, and Fr. falaize, the seashore).
In old English law
Exposed upon the sands or seashore. A species of punishment mentioned in Hengham. Summa Parva, c.
3; Cowell.