Irresistible Force
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A term applied to such an interposition of human agency as is, from its nature and power, absolutely uncontrollable; as, the inroads of a hostile army.
Story, Bailm. § 25; Lois des Batim. pt. 2, c. 2, § 1.
It differs from "inevitable accident" (q. v.),