foresee

foresee
fore·see vt fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing: to be aware of the reasonable possibility of (as an occurrence or development) beforehand

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

foresee
I verb anticipate, augur, await, be clairvoyant, be provident, conjecture, contemplate, divine, envisage, envision, expect, forecast, forebode, foretell, look ahead, look forward, preconceive, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, show foresight, surmise, vaticinate associated concepts: foreseeability as proximate cause II index expect (consider probable), preconceive, predict, presage, prognosticate

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


foresee
v.
To predict; to know in advance what is likely to occur in a given situation.
adj.
foreseeable
n.
foreseeability

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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