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contingent definition - legal

adj

  1. Possible, but not certain to happen.
  2. Dependent upon a future event or circumstance that is not certain to happen. See also vested.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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