contributory

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Instead, they now join all ministers in the Ministerial Pension Scheme, a contributory defined-benefit scheme part of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2022

But under "Other Contributory Causes of Importance," the document read, "Compression fracture of spine," dated three weeks before his death at Munson Hospital.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2021

They commenced, last week, when there came automatically into effect Section Three of the Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act of 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person."

From Time Magazine Archive

Contributory negligence,166 the natural death of hostage for debt,167 the accidental goring of a man by a wild bull,168 are excluded from litigation.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)