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Condition precedent - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Ability, Abnormality, Adapt, Affairs, Affection, Affliction, Ailment, Allergy, Alter, Apprentice, Atrophy, Bearings, Blight |
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An event of state of affairs that is required before something else will occur.
"When I die I will go to heaven." My death is a condition precedent to my going to heaven (although it is also possible in this example for me to go to heaven on the occurrence of other conditions precedent: it is not stated that I will only go to heaven if I die).
See also condition subsequent.
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Example Usage of Condition |
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NeilMullarkey: Yes! RT @alaindebotton: Useful new verb, 'to moast' - to moan about one's Condition while at the same time also secretly boasting about it. |
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kartikprabhu: Doubt is not a pleasant Condition, but certainty is absurd.
-Voltaire |
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hecrazyxcal: I won't fall victim to the "human Condition". You're all lying, idiotic, fuck tards! You know where I stand..stand with me, or against me. |
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