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21efficient intervening cause — An intervening efficient cause is a new and independent force, which breaks the causal connection between the original wrong and the injury, and is the proximate and immediate cause of the injury. Thus, the original negligent actor is not liable… …
22cause — noun (Lat. causa.) Each separate antecedent of an event. Something that precedes and brings about an effect or a result. A reason for an action or condition. A ground of a legal action. An agent that brings something about. That which in some… …
23efficient intervening cause — An intervening efficient cause is a new and independent force, which breaks the causal connection between the original wrong and the injury, and is the proximate and immediate cause of the injury. Thus, the original negligent actor is not liable… …
24CAUSE AND EFFECT — Divergent conceptions of the relation between cause and effect (or agent and act) can be found throughout Jewish religious and non religious literature from ancient times to the present. Indeed, this relation clearly underlies many of the most… …
25cause — causable, adj. causability, n. causeless, adj. causelessly, adv. causelessness, n. causer, n. /kawz/, n., v., caused, causing. n. 1. a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the… …
26cause suit to be brought — Commence or begin. See cause concurrent causes efficient cause probable cause proximate cause …
27cause suit to be brought — Commence or begin. See cause concurrent causes efficient cause probable cause proximate cause …
28cause — I. n. 1. Origin, original, source, spring, mainspring, efficient cause. 2. Ground, reason, motive, consideration, account, inducement, incentive, incitement. 3. Purpose, object, aim, end, final cause. 4. Undertaking, enterprise, attempt. 5.… …
29efficient — adj. 1 productive with minimum waste or effort. 2 (of a person) capable; acting effectively. Phrases and idioms: efficient cause Philos. an agent that brings a thing into being or initiates a change. Derivatives: efficiently adv. Etymology: ME f …
30efficient — efficient, iente [ efisjɑ̃, jɑ̃t ] adj. • 1290; lat. efficiens, de efficere « réaliser » 1 ♦ Philos. Cause efficiente, qui produit un effet (opposé à cause finale). 2 ♦ (1948; angl. efficient) Anglic. (abusif) Efficace, dynamique, capable de… …
