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Condition Precedent. DEFINITION of 'Condition Precedent'. A legal term describing a condition or event that must come to pass before a specific contract is considered in effect or any obligations are expected of either party. There may also be condition precedents in the ongoing life of a contract, which simply state that if condition X occurs, event Y will then occur.
early 15c., case which may be taken as a rule in similar cases, from Middle French precedent, noun use of an adjective, from Latin praecedentum (nominative praecedens), present participle of praecedere go before (see precede). Meaning thing or person that goes before another is attested from mid-15c. As an adjective in English from c.1400. As a verb meaning to furnish with a precedent from 1610s, now only in past participle precedented.