Incident

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Meaning of Incident

An event , a happening which is dependent upon or follows another is said to be incident to it.

Incident Alternative Definition

This term Is used both substantively and adjectively of a thing which, either usually or naturally and inseparably, depends upon, appertains to, or follows another that is more worthy. For example, rent is usually incident to a reversion (1 Hilliard, Real Prop. 243), while the right of alienation is necessarily incident to a feesimple at common law, and cannot be separated by a grant (1 Washb. Real Prop. 54). So a court baron is inseparably incident to a manor, in England. Kitch. Cts. 36; Co. Litt. 151. All nominate contracts and all estates known to common law have certain incidents which they draw with them, and which it is not necessary to reserve in words. See Jacob.

Synonyms of Incident

adjective

  • accessory
  • affiliated
  • allied
  • appertaining to
  • apropos
  • associated
  • bearing upon
  • belonging
  • circumstantial
  • collateral
  • connected
  • contextual
  • contingent
  • correlative
  • dependent on
  • following upon
  • implicated
  • in connection with
  • in relation to
  • inherent in
  • pertaining to
  • related to
  • relating to
  • relative to
  • subject to
  • subsidiary
  • Associated Concepts: customarily incident
  • necessary and incident to

noun

  • affair
  • case
  • casus
  • contingency
  • episode
  • event
  • experience
  • happening
  • occasion
  • occurrence
  • pass
  • proceeding

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Incident

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early 15c., “something which occurs casually in connection with something else,” from Old French incident (13c.), and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere “to fall in, fall, find the way; light upon, fall in with; fall upon, occur; happen, befall,” from in- “on” (see in- (2)) + -cidere, combining form of cadere “to fall” (see case (n.1)). Broader sense of “an occurrence viewed as a separate circumstance” is from mid-15c. Euphemistic meaning “event that might trigger a crisis or political unrest” first attested 1913.


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