Provision made for known or specified liabilities which may occur in future is provision for liabilities whereas Contingent liabilitiy is provision made for unknown liabilities which may or may not...
A contingent liability is: (a) a possible obligation that arises from past events and whose existence will be confirmed only by the occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more uncertain future events...
Contingent liabilities are not added to total liabilities but shown as a note to financial statements that these are the liabilities that are contingent on certain event