proximate cause
proximate cause · proximate causes
An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient…An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
Meaning
1 sensesAn event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
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