More minutia- continual vs. continuous

[Jumboshrimps]

Can any of the fine legal and linguistic minds on this board illuminate the difference between "continual" and "continuous?"

[slacker]

two answers.

a) They're the same; which is probably often how they're used.

b) I looked up the definition of both at dictionary.com. A possible difference is that continual is a series of discrete events that keep occurring. Continuous is one event that continues to occur without breaks.