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Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

United States Code

30 U.S.C. § 1522 — in this section

the term “risk” means the hazard that a reservoir of geothermal resources will cease to provide sufficient quantities of geothermal resources at minimum conditions required to maintain an economically or technically viable operation for utilization of the geothermal resource;

33 U.S.C. § 3301 — in this chapter

The term “risk” means a measure of the probability and severity of undesirable consequences.

42 U.S.C. § 17271 — in this section

The term “risk” includes any risk posed by geomechanical, geochemical, hydrogeological, structural, and engineered hazards.

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In insurance law. The event insured against. Not the "danger," but the circumstances which give rise to it. 1 Hurlst. & N. 334. RISTOURNE (Fr.)

In insurance law. The dissolution of a policy or contract of insurance, for any cause. Emerig. Tr. des Assur. c. 16. a thing is done in due form). Lord Ellenborough, 8 East, 24S. Sea "Omnia Praosnmuntoz Rite, etc."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Insurance hazard.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Insurance law; the danger or bazard of a loss of the property insured; the casualty contemplated in a contract of insurance; the degree of bazard; and, colloquially, the specific house, factory, ship, etc., covered by the policy.

Risks of navigation. It is held that this term is not the equivalent of "perils of navigation," but is of more comprehensive import than the latter. Pitcher v. Hennessey, 48 N. Y. 419.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In insurance law, a peril, hazard, or danger; chance of loss.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

A danger, hazard, or peril. Also, in insurance law, the obligation of an insurer; the probability that he may be called upon to respond for a loss; and sometimes the anticipated cause of loss against which he engages to indemnify the insured.