proximate cause

English

Noun

proximate cause (plural proximate causes)

(law) 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.

Translations

event without which an injury would not have occurred

Danish: adækvans c

Spanish: causa inmediata f

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