ACCIDENTALIA

accidentalia (ak-si-den-tay-lee-[schwa]). [Law Latin “accidental things”] Hist. Incidents of a contract; non-essential contractual terms to which the parties expressly stipulate. Cf. ESSENTALIA. “Accidentalia have their existence entirely by express stipulation, and are never presumed without it.” William Bell, Bell’s Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland 406 (George Watson ed., 7th ed. 1890).