What is CIRCUMSTANCES? Definition of CIRCUMSTANCES in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Attendant facts. Pope v. Reading Co., 304 Pa. 326, 156 A. 106, 109. The surroundings at the commission of an act.
The terms "circumstance" and "fact" are, in many applications, synonymous; but the true distinction of a circumstance is its relative character. "Any fact may be a circumstance with reference to any other fact." 1 Benth. Jud.Evid. 42, note; Id. 142. "Circumstances" are minor facts, Pulliam v. State, 196 Ga. 782, 28 S.E.2d 139, 147; related or accessory facts, occurrences or things which stand around, or about, which attend upon, which closely precede or follow, which surround , and accompany, which depend upon, or which support or qualify a principal fact or event, Salter v. State, 163 Ga. 80, 135 S.E. 408, 409.
As used in a statute for an allowance for the wife in a divorce action, having regard to the "circumstances" of the parties, it includes practically everything which has a legitimate bearing on present and prospective matters relating to the lives of both parties. Lamborn v. Lamborn, 80 Cal. App. 494, 251 P. 943, 945.
The "circumstances of the transaction itself," as used in the doctrine of dying declarations, are the circumstances or facts leading up to, causing, or attending the homicide, and are not confined to occurrences at the very time thereof. Pendleton v. Commonwealth, 131 Va. 676, 109 S.E. 201, 209.
Thrift, integrity, good repute, business capacity, and stability of character, for example, are "circumstances" which may be very properly considered in determining the question of "adequate security." Martin v. Duke, 5 Rea.
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