fortuitous

  • 41fortuitous collision — /fortyuwadas kalizhan/ In maritime law, the accidental running foul of vessels …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 42fortuitous event — /fortyuwadas avent/ An event happening by chance or accident. That which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted. An unforeseen occurrence, not caused by either of the parties, nor such as they could prevent. For purposes of an all risk… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 43fortuitous collision — /fortyuwadas kalizhan/ In maritime law, the accidental running foul of vessels …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 44fortuitous event — /fortyuwadas avent/ An event happening by chance or accident. That which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted. An unforeseen occurrence, not caused by either of the parties, nor such as they could prevent. For purposes of an all risk… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 45fortuitous collision — An accidental collision of vessels without fault on either side. Peters v Warren Ins. Com. (US) 14 Pet 99, 112, 10 L Ed 371, 378 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 46felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate — Felicitous means well suited, apt, appropriate : The speaker s felicitous joke put the audience in a jovial mood. Fortuitous means accidental, produced by chance, lucky : Our meeting today on the street is fortuitous. A typical success story is… …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 47fortuitously — fortuitous, fortuitously 1. The OED and all reputable dictionaries show fortuitous to be a word with only one meaning, ‘caused by chance, accidental’. Addison wrote in the Spectator in 1712 that the highest Degree of [wisdom] which Man can… …

    Modern English usage

  • 48Fortuitously — Fortuitous For*tu i*tous, a. [L. fortuitus; akin to forte, adv., by chance, prop. abl. of fors, fortis, chance. See {Fortune}.] 1. Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 49Fortuitousness — Fortuitous For*tu i*tous, a. [L. fortuitus; akin to forte, adv., by chance, prop. abl. of fors, fortis, chance. See {Fortune}.] 1. Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 50fortuit — Fortuitous; accidental; occurring by the arbitrament of chance. See cas fortuit …

    Ballentine's law dictionary