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1. proximate cause : a cause that sets in motion a sequence of events uninterrupted by any superseding causes and that results in a usually foreseeable effect (as an injury) which would not otherwise have occurred – called also direct cause, legal cause. 2. direct cause (same as proximate cause) 3. legal cause (If the plaintiff does not appear at all he is said to be non-suit or suited. A non-suit may, however, be entered by the court where the plaintiff fails to make out a legal cause of action - JBS( (also علت اساسي قانوني) : proximate cause in this entry 4. procuring cause : one (as a broker) that sets in motion a continuous series of events culminating esp in the sale or leasing of real estate (entitled to a commission as the procuring cause of the sale even though the listing had expired( • immediate occasion (‘deodand’ [is] any personal chattel which is the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature: which was formerly forfeited to the king, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by his high almoner, though in earlier times it was destined to a more superstitious purpose – JBS( • principal reason • efficient cause • causa sine qua non : A necessary or inevitable cause ; a cause without which the effect in question could not have happened. A cause without which a thing cannot be. With reference to negligence, it is the cause without which the injury would not have occurred.
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