"proximate cause" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: proximate causes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} proximate cause (plural proximate causes)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: proximate cause Categories (topical): Law Translations (event without which an injury would not have occurred): adækvans [common-gender] (Danish), causa inmediata [feminine] (Spanish)

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