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UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT Definition & Legal Meaning

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Not necessarily an accident which it was physically impossible, in the nature of things, for the person to have prevented, but one not occasioned in any degree, either remotely or directly, by the want of such care or skill as the law holds every man bound to exercise. Dygert v. Bradley, 8 Wend. (N. Y.) 473.

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