CONDITION

In the civil law. The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different or_ders of society. J An agreement or stipulation in regard to some uncertain future event, not of the e ential nature or the transaction, but annexed to it by the' parties, providing for a change or modification of their legal rela- K tions upon its occurrence. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 184. Cla ification. In the civil law, conditions are -0£ the following several kinds: The casual condition is that which depends on chance, and is in no way in thcfv'.wer either l of the creditor or of the debtor. 1v. Code La.. art. 2023. A mixed condition is one that depends at the same time on the will of one of the parties and on the will of a third vers on, or on the will of one of the parties and also on a casual event. Civ. Code La. art. 2025. The pote1t11tive conditiOJ. b that which makes M [s. 245]