a general sense, a term applied to events not necessarily produced as the natural effects of any proper foreknown cause. For the doctrine of chance and its application to games, &c. see Gaming.

Chance-medley, in law, is the accidental killing of a man, not altogether without the killer's fault, though without any evil intention; and is where one is doing a lawful act, and a person is killed thereby: For, if the act be unlawful, it is felony.