possibility

possibility
I noun achievability, anticipation, attainability, availability, chance, conceivability, conceivableness, expectance, expectancy, expectation, facultas, favorable opportunity, favorable prospect, feasibility, gamble, hope, likelihood, opportunity, plausibility, posse, potential, potentiality, potestas, probability, promise, prospect, suggestion, uncertainty, viability, viableness foreign phrases:
- Jus triplex est – propietatis, possessionis, et possibilitatis. — Right is threefold – of property, of possession, and of possibility
- Ultra posse non potest esse, et vice versa. — What is beyond possibility cannot exist, and the reverse, what cannot exist is not possible.
II index access (opening), contingency, feasibility, likelihood, opportunity, potential, probability, proposal (suggestion), prospect (outlook), prospect (prospective patron), risk, suggestion

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


possibility
n.
Something that could happen but will not necessarily happen; a contingent interest in property.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


possibility
n. The chance of something's happening, regardless of whether or not it actually occurs; a contingent interest in property, whether real or personal.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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