Circumstance

Circumstance or circumstances may refer to:

Law

 * 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

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