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Vis Major

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Noun

1. act of god, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events

Example Sentences:
'he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vis Major

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noun
force majeure

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Vis Major

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act of God

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Vis Major

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n. pl. vi·res ma·jo·res (vī′rēz mə-jôrēz, -jŏr-)
Law
An overwhelming, unanticipated, and unpreventable event, usually caused by a natural force, the occurrence of which may exempt a party from performing the obligations of a contract. Also called force majeure.

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