- sudden emergency
- An occurrence fraught with danger which is unexpected and occurs so abruptly as to be unnoticed before the peril is presented. Booth v Price, 183 Ark 975, 39 SW2d 717, 76 ALR 957.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
sudden emergency
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