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Definition of Supervening
1. supervene [v] - See also: supervene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supervening
Literary usage of Supervening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the by Charles Darwin (1883)
"... hetween members of the same class, between parts of the same individual —
EMBRYOLOGY, laws of, explained by variations not supervening at an early age, ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Existing and supervening impossibility. Performance of a promise may be impossible
at the time the promise was made, or it may become impossible because of ..."
3. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"supervening Insolvency Destroying Right of Offset. ... supervening insolvency
would destroy the right of set-off, had there been no proceedings in ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Existing and supervening impossibility. Performance of a promise may be impossible
at the time the promise was made, or it may become impossible because of ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"On the treatment of obstinate Agile, and of the supervening Dropsy. The following
combination is recommended as very effectual in cases of obstinate old ..."
6. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... SOMETIMES supervening EARLIER IN THE CHILD THAN IN 'Jill. PARENT—SUMMARY OF
THE THREE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. IN the last two chapters the nature and force ..."
7. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1847)
"ARTICLE V. IMBECILITY OF MIND supervening IN YOUNG PEOPLE. By DR. CONNOLLY, of
Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. In many such cases, there has existed some congenital ..."
8. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... method of raising question of ment, if a doubt arises as to the sanity :
insanity supervening after ..."
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