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ADVENTURE (from See also:Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen) , See also:chance, and especially chance of danger ; so a hazardous enterprise or remarkable incident. Thus an " adventurer," from meaning one who takes See also:part in some speculative course of See also:action, came to mean one who lived by his wits and a See also:person of no See also:character. The word is also used in certain restricted legal connexions. See also:Joint adventure, for instance, may be distinguished from See also:partnership (q.v.). A See also:bill of adventure in maritime See also:law (now apparently obsolete) is a See also:writing signed by the shipmaster declaring that goods shipped in his name really belong to another, to whom he is responsible. The bill of See also:gross adventure in See also:French maritime law is an See also:instrument making a See also:loan on maritime See also:security.

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