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Act of God (1,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

" In the law of torts, an act of God may be asserted as a type of intervening cause, the lack of which would have avoided the cause or diminished the

Milborne Port (1,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

helped establish the principles of remoteness, foreseeability, and intervening cause in modern common law torts. Shepherd tossed a lit squib into a crowded

Eggshell skull (1,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

injury was foreseeable, the defendant was liable for all the harm. Intervening cause is typically an exception to the eggshell skull rule. If an injury

Proximate cause (2,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are no intervening causes between an act and the resulting harm. An intervening cause has several requirements: it must 1) be independent of the original

Ettore Boschi (523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

made up of experienced rock climbers and skiers. After embracing the intervening cause he volunteered for the First World War during which he was decorated

Tort (22,325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defendant may argue that there was a prior cause or a superseding intervening cause. A common situation where a prior cause becomes an issue is the personal

Forensic epidemiology (3,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the outcome are in time the less opportunity there is for an intervening cause to act. Another feature of temporality that may have a role in a specific

Mafesa v Parity Versekeringsmaatskappy (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defendant was not liable for the damage caused thereby: The fall was an intervening cause which broke the causal effect of the original negligence. As no evidence

Royscot Trust Ltd v Rogerson (2,924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which initiated the chain of causes leading to the final result, that intervening cause is not itself, in the legal sense, a novus actus interveniens breaking

Milborne Port Town Hall (651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

helped establish the principles of remoteness, foreseeability, and intervening cause in modern common law torts (personal injury law). Milborne Port had

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. (7,567 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

here a natural and continuous sequence—direct connection. The only intervening cause was that instead of blowing her to the ground the concussion smashed

South African criminal law (38,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interveniens (or nova causa interveniens) is a new intervening act, or a new intervening cause: that is to say, an abnormal interposition or event which breaks the