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uncertain and contingent demands

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From 82 U.S. 549 - Riggin v. Magwire · 1872Most cited · 52 citing opinions

as long as it remained wholly uncertain whether a contract or engagement would ever give rise to an actual duty or liability, and there was no means of removing the uncertainty by calculation, such contract or engagement was not provable under the act of 1841