"proximate cause" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "law"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "event without which an injury would not have occurred",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "adækvans"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "event without which an injury would not have occurred",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "causa inmediata"
        }
      ],
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        "proximate cause"
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  "word": "proximate cause"
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        "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."
      ],
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "law"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "event without which an injury would not have occurred",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "adækvans"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "event without which an injury would not have occurred",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "causa inmediata"
    }
  ],
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