Circumstance

• Attendant circumstance, a legal concept which ''Black's Law Dictionary'' defines as the "facts surrounding an event" • Aggravating circumstance, a circumstance attending the commission of a crime which increases its enormity or adds to its consequences • Exigent circumstance, allowing law enforcement to enter a structure outside the bounds of a search warrant • Extenuating circumstances, information regarding a defendant or crime that might result in reduced charges or a lesser sentence == Arts and media ==

Films • Circumstance (2011 film), a 2011 dramatic film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz • Circumstance (1922 film), a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris Literature • "Circumstance" (short story), an allegorical short story by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford • Circumstance, a 1935 novel by William M. John Music • Pomp and Circumstance Marches, a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar • "Circumstances" (song), a 1978 song by the Canadian band Rush == Other uses ==

• Circumstances (rhetoric), questions whose answers are considered basic in information gathering or problem solving ==See also==