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per·il /'per-əl/ n1: exposure to the risk of death, destruction, or loss2: the cause of a loss (as of property)insured their home against fire, floods, and other peril s compare risk
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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approach of danger, crisis, danger, dangerous situation, desperate situation, emergency, endanger ment, exposure to danger, exposure to destruction, exposure to harm, exposure to injury, exposure to loss, hazard, helplessness, hopelessness, imperilment, insecurity, jeopardy, liability to injury, parlous state, precariousness, predicament, risk, source of danger, source of risk, susceptibility, susceptibleness, susceptivity, threat, uncertainty, unhealthy situation, unsafety, unsureness, vulnerability, vulnerable point
associated concepts: common peril, discovered peril, doctrine of discovered peril, doctrine of last clear chance, manifest peril, unforseen peril
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danger, endanger, hazard, jeopardize, jeopardy, menace, pitfall, risk, threat, venture
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.Danger; risk; the risk that is covered by an insurance policy.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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n. Risk of exposure to injury or damage, such as that protected against in an insurance policy.See also insurance.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The designated contingency, risk, or hazard against which an insured seeks to protect himself or herself when purchasing a policy of insurance.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The designated contingency, risk, or hazard against which an insured seeks to protect himself or herself when purchasing a policy of insurance.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
