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chance
I (fortuity) noun advantage, befalling, casus, circumstance, event, favorable time, fortuitousness, good fortune, happening, occasion, opening, suitable circumstance, time associated concepts: arise by chance, last clear chance II (possibility) noun aptitude, attainability, bare possibility, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, favorable prospect, hope, imaginability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, liability, likelihood, possibleness, potential, potentiality, probability, prospect, spes, uncertainty, unexpectedness, unpredictability associated concepts: chance verdict, games of chance foreign phrases:
- Casus fortuitus non est supponendus. — A chance happening is not to be presumed
- Casus fortuitus non est sperandus, et nemo tenetur devinare. — A chance happening is not to be expected, and no one is bound to foresee it
III index access (opening), bet, coincidental, contingency, fortuitous, gamble, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, likelihood, lottery, occasion, opportunity, possibility, potential, privilege, probability, prospect (outlook), quirk (accident), random, risk, speculate (chance), speculation (risk), suspicion (uncertainty), unexpected, unintentional, unwitting, venture

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006