involuntary exposure

involuntary exposure
A merely inadvertent and unintentional exposure to a known danger, under peculiar circumstances not affording opportunity for deliberate action, or an exposure to an unknown danger, through a voluntary act. Diddle v Continental Casualty Co. 65 W Va 170, 63 SE 962.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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