contingent liability (obligation)

  • 81prescription — pre·scrip·tion /pri skrip shən/ n [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning,… …

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  • 82Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini — Marwa El Sherbini Born 7 October 1977(1977 10 07) Alexandria, Egypt Died 1 July 2009 …

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  • 83chance — Synonyms and related words: a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, arise, assay, attempt, bare possibility, bechance, befall, bet, betide, blind …

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  • 84contingency — Synonyms and related words: accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, aptitude, aptness, auxiliary, bare possibility, blind bargain, borderline case, break, casualty, chance, chance hit,… …

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  • 85eventuality — Synonyms and related words: accident, aftereffect, aftermath, aftertime, afteryears, aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, by and by, by product, case, chance, circumstance, coming to be, conceivability, conceivableness, condition, conjuncture,… …

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  • 86turn — Synonyms and related words: Charybdis, Platonic form, Platonic idea, S curve, a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, about face, access, acciaccatura, accommodation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, act of grace, act… …

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  • 87advance payment — Payments made in anticipation of a contingent or fixed future liability or obligation …

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  • 88advance payment — Payments made in anticipation of a contingent or fixed future liability or obligation …

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  • 89existing indebtedness — For some purposes, a liquidated demand or a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. Craig v Gaddis, 171 Miss 379, 157 So 684. 95 ALR 1494 (availability of remedy of attachment); Wing v Slater, 19 RI 597, 35 A 302 (personal liability of …

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