A condition precedent is an event or state of affairs that is required before something else will occur. In
contract law
A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to ...
, a condition precedent is an event which must occur, unless its non-occurrence is excused, before performance under a contract becomes due, i.e., before any contractual duty exists.
[ Restatement (Second) of Contracts ยง 224]
In estate and trust law, it is a provision in a will or trust that prevents the vesting of a gift or bequest until something occurs or fails to occur, e.g. the attainment of a certain age or the predecease of another person. For comparison, a
condition subsequent brings a duty to an end whereas a condition precedent initiates a duty.
In computing, a
while loop
In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given Boolean condition. The ''while'' loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement.
Overview
The '' ...
sets the truth of a statement as a condition precedent for the execution of a given subroutine or other code segment. By contrast, a
do while loop
In most computer programming languages a do while loop is a control flow statement that executes a block of code and then either repeats the block or exits the loop depending on a given boolean condition.
The ''do while'' construct consists of ...
provides for the action's ongoing execution unless a given condition is determined to be false, ''i.e.'', provides for that action's execution subject to defeasance by the condition's falsity, which falsity (''i.e.'', the truth of the condition's negation) is set as a
condition subsequent.
Cases
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Poussard v Spiers and Pond'' (1876) 1 QBD 410
See also
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Condition subsequent
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Necessary condition
In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For example, in the conditional statement: "If then ", is necessary for , because the truth o ...
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Sufficient condition
In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For example, in the conditional statement: "If then ", is necessary for , because the truth of ...
Notes
Contract law
Property law
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