| 单词 | contingent fee | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascontingent fee   contingent fee  n. Law 		 (a) an estate for which inheritance is contingent on other factors; cf. sense  A. 9   (obsolete);		 (b) originally U.S. = contingency fee n. at contingency n. Additions. ΚΠ 1685    Arguments Late Ld. Chancellor Nottingham  ii. 27  				It is not impossible to limit a Contingent Fee upon a Fee. 1829    J. B. Gibson in  T. Sergeant  & W. Rawle Rep. Supreme Court Pennsylvania 16 220  				The counsel may have had no personal interest in the event; but, if any thing of this sort had been shown, such for instance as a contingent fee, it would have afforded ground for a challenge. 1879    Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 12 144  				The tenant for life—that is, the mortgagor—died in 1844, having survived both of her daughters, so that the contingent fee never became a vested fee, and therefore the ultimate fee descended to the heir-at-law of the original testator. 1992    D. Pannick Advocates vi. 189  				The opposition to contingent fees has focused on the undesirability of lawyers agreeing to receive a high percentage of any damages which might be recovered by their client. < as lemmas  | 
	
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