Meaning of non-occurring | Babel Free

Definitions

The instance of something not occurring.

uncountable

Examples

“The non-occurring of cholera in New York in the autumn of 1892 was not due in any important degree to the quarantine; but infinitely more to the fact that the other conditions did not prevail.”

“[…]there being no provision in the contract for the return of the money, the subsequent non-occurring of the event, or the event happening which makes the contract impossible of performance on both sides, does not entitle the plaintiff to recover his money[…]”

“So the absence of anophelines is doubtless the reason of the nonoccurring of malaria in Nemi.”

“However, investigations by electron microscope proved that the non-occurring of crystallization was illusory.”

“The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.”

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