| 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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