Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Inchoate; In process of maturing. That which will or may, at a future time, ripen into a vested right, an available demand or an existing cause of action. Cochran v. Taylor, 13 Ohio St. 382.