Circumstance
Encyclopedia
Legal terms
- Aggravating circumstance
- Attendant circumstanceAttendant circumstanceAttendant circumstance is a legal concept which Black's Law Dictionary defines as the "facts surrounding an event."...
, a legal concept which Black's Law Dictionary defines as the "facts surrounding an event." - Exigent circumstanceExigent circumstanceAn exigent circumstance, in the American law of criminal procedure, allows law enforcement to enter a structure without a warrant, or if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, without knocking and waiting for refusal under certain circumstances...
- Extenuating circumstancesExtenuating circumstancesIn law, extenuating circumstances in criminal cases are unusual or extreme facts leading up to or attending the commission of the offense which, though an offense has been committed without legal justification or excuse, mitigate or reduce its gravity from the point of view of punishment or moral...
Films
- Circumstance (2011 film)Circumstance (2011 film)Circumstance is a 2011 dramatic film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz. It explores homosexuality in modern Iran.-Plot:Atafeh is the teenage daughter of a well-to-do Iranian family in Tehran...
, a 2011 dramatic film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Circumstance (1922 film)Circumstance (1922 film)-External links:* at National Film and Sound Archive...
, a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris
Others
- Circumstances (concept), a Hindu philosophical concept
- Circumstances (rhetoric)
- "Circumstance" (short story)Circumstance (short story)"Circumstance" is an allegorical short story written by American author Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford as a periodical in The Atlantic Monthly in 1860. The story takes place in the woods of Maine following an unnamed protagonist who travels to return to home after caring for a sick neighbor...
, an allegorical short story by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Special CircumstancesSpecial CircumstancesSpecial Circumstances, abbreviated SC, is a 'secret service'-type organisation that exists within the fictional anarchist utopian science fiction civilisation known as the Culture. It forms a background and plot device in several novels and shorter works of Iain M...
, a 'secret service'-type organisation in works by Iain M. Banks - Pomp and Circumstance MarchesPomp and Circumstance MarchesThe "Pomp and Circumstance Marches" , Op. 39 are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar....
, a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar - Communities of Circumstance
- "Circumstances" (song)Circumstances (song)"Circumstances" is the second track on progressive rock band Rush's 1978 album Hemispheres. Lyrically, it is an autobiographical account, written by Peart, about the time he spent living in England, and his eventual disillusionment with his then-current occupations.Musically, it's a hard-hitting...
, a 1978 song by the Canadian band Rush