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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.
On the second level the. condition is a fact which qualifies a promise of one party to the contract. in the sense that the promisor's duty to perform what he promises is. dependent on the occurrence or existence of that fact. It is on this second. level that the legal tags precedent and subsquent are typically used.