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Unavoidable Cause

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A cause which reasonably prudent and careful men under like circumstances do not and would not ordinarily anticipate, ami whose effects, under similar circumstances, they do not and would not ordinarily avoid. Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. U. S., 194 Fed. 342, 114 C. C. A. 334.