ACCIDENT

An unforeseen event, oc- curring without the will or design of the person whose mere act causes it; an unex- pected, unusual, or undesigned occurrence; the effect of an unknown cause, or, the cause being known, an unprecedented consequence of it; a casualty. There is nothing in the definition of the word "accident" that excludes the negligence of the injured party as one of the elements con- tributing to produce the result. A very large management of horses, and in a thousand ways, where it can readily be seen afterwards that a little greater care on their part would B have prevented it. Yet such injuries, having C been unexpected, and not caused intentionally or by design, are always called "accidents," and properly so. 24 Wis. 28. In equity practice. Such an unforeseen event, misfortune, loss, act, or omission as is D not the result of any negligence or misconduct in the party. Fran. Max. 87; Story, Eq. Jur. § 78. The meaning to be attached to the word "accident," in relation to equitable relief, is any unforeseen and undesigned event, pro- ductive of disadvantage. Wharton. An accident relievable in equity is such an occurrence, not the result of negligence or misconduct of the party seeking relief in re- lation to a contract, as was not anticipated by the parties when the same was entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to F one of them over another in a court of law. G Code Ga. 1882, § 3112. Accipere quid ut justitiam facias, non est tam accipere quam extorquere. To accept anything as a reward for doing justice H is rather extorting than accepting. Lofft, 72.

(10) ACCESSARY.-See ACCESSORY. ACCESSION, strictly speaking, is where a thing which belongs to one person becomes the property of someone else, by reason of its becoming added to or incorporated with a thing belonging to the latter. This takes place in the case of alluvion, dereliction, the addition of buildings, plants, &c., to the soil, the erection of fixtures, and where two things are so united as to form one, as by the embroidering of cloth, the painting of a picture on canvas, &c. 2 Just. Inst. 1, 33 20 et seq.; Hunt. Rom. Law 128; 1 Vangerow, Pandekten, 629. 2. Blackstone includes under accession what is more correctly called specificatio, which takes place where a person makes a new thing (species) out of materials belonging to another, and thereby acquires the ownership of them, subject to making compensation to the former owner for their original value. 2 Bl. Com. 404; Kuntze, Cursus, 22 508-511.* 3. The word is also used to denote the beginning of the reign of a sovereign, or the acceptance by one nation of a treaty already concluded between two or more other states or sovereignties. Merl. Répert. ACCESSION, (of land, law of). 8 Wheat. (U.S.) 1, 108. (by alteration of property in species). 5 Johns. (N.Y.) 348; 7 Cow. (Ν. Υ.) 95. Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale: An accessory thing does not lead, but follows the principal thing to which it is accessory. Thus, in certain cases, a fixture becomes the property of the owner of the land to which it is affixed, and crops are the property of him on whose land they grow. Accessorium sequitur naturam rei cui accedit: The accessory follows the nature of the thing to which it is accessory. See ACCESSION; ACCRETION. Accessorius sequitur naturam sui principalis: The accessory follows the nature of his principal. An accessory to a crime cannot be deemed guilty of a higher degree of the offence than his principal. ACCESSORY.-LATIN: accessorius. (1) Anything connected or joined with another thing (called the principal) as an incident or subordinate, is accessory to such principal thing. (2) He who is not a chief actor at a felony, nor present at its perpetration, but yet is in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed, is an accessory to the crime. In this latter sense the word is sometimes spelled accessary. 1. Before the fact.-An accessory before the fact is he who, directly or indirectly, counsels, procures, aids or commands any person to commit any felony which is committed in his absence, in consequence of such counsel, aid or command. (1 Russ. Cr. 164; Steph. Cr. Dig. 24.) In England the accessory before the fact to any felony is in all respects in the same position as if he were a principal felon. (Stat. 24 and 25 Vict. c. 94 88 1, 2; Greaves Cr. Acts, 18.) In high treason and misdemeanor there are no accessories, but all persons concerned therein, if guilty at all, are principals. (1) Russ. Cr. 167, 169.) This is not so well settled in the United States as respects persons who assist traitors. Serg. Const. L. 382; 4 Cranch (U. S.) 472, 501. 2. After the fact. - An accessory after the fact is a person who, knowing a felony to have been committed by another, re ceives, relieves, comforts or assists the felon, in order to enable him to escape from punishment, or the like. 1 Russ. Cr. 171; Steph. 27; 39 Miss. 702. 23. At the fact.-In English law principals in the second degree are sometimes called accessories at the fact. 1 Russ. Cr. 156. ACCESSORY, (defined). 4 Bl. Com. 35; 2 Stark. Ev. 8. ACCESSORY AND PRINCIPAL, (defined). Coxe (N. J.) 453. See also Baldw. (U. S.) 78, 102; 1 Woodb. & M. (U. S.) 221. fall. ACCIDENT.- LATIN: ad to, and cadere to An extraordinary, unusual and unexpected event; an event happening from *The doctrine of property arising from accesthing was entitled by his right of possession to sion is grounded on the right of occupancy, and the property of it under its imp improved state; but derived from the Roman law; thus, if any given if the thing itself by such operation, was changed corporeal substance receive an accession, either into a different species, as by making wine, oil, by natural or artificial means, as by the growth or bread out of another's grapes, olives, or wh or wheat, of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the it belonged to the new operator; who only made embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood a satisfaction to the former proprietor for the or metal into utensils, the original owner of the materials so converted.

[Lat. accidens, from accidere, q. v.] A casualty; an act of providence; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation. See Inevitable accident, Act of God, Casualty. In equity. Any such unforeseen event, misfortune, loss, act or omission, as is not the result of any negligence or misconduct.* 1 Story's Eq. Jurispr. § 78. According to Mr. Spence, "every attempt to define accident in its judicial acceptation, has failed." 1 Spence's Ch. 628.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench. A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. | An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. | casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. | A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) | Any chance event. | Chance; random chance. | Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. | Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. | A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case. | An instance of incontinence. | An instance of incontinence. | Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence. | An unintended pregnancy. | An unintended pregnancy. | A person born from an unintended pregnancy. | An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause. | A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground. | A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.

A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.