intervening cause

intervening cause definition - legal

n

An event that interrupts the chain of causation by providing an independent cause of the final result, possibly relieving the original actors of liability.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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