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Definition of Superseding intervening cause in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is Superseding intervening cause? Meaning of Superseding intervening cause as a legal term. ... Other jurisdictions do not use the term superseding cause. These jurisdictions simply ask whether...
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Intervening cause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An intervening cause also known as "superseding cause" is a potential defense to the tort of negligence, if it is an unforeseeable, and therefore superseding intervening cause, rather than a fore...
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Law.com's online Real Life Dictionary of the Law. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms. Use it free! ... The superseding cause relieves from responsibility (liability) the party whose act started the series of events which led to the accident, since the original negligence is no longer the proximate cause...
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A superseding cause is any force which, by its intervention in the sequence of events leading from the defendant's negligence to the plaintiff's injury, legally prevents the defendant from being ... A superseding cause is any force which, by its intervention in the sequence of events leading from the defendant's negligence...
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Terry Christlieb, Why Superseding Cause Analysis Should Be Abandoned, 72 TEXAS. L. REV. 161 (1993). ... The variable definition of superseding cause has caused circuit splits over continued use and meaning of the term; this Note focuses on the divisions plaguing the Admiralty Court.
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This student note advocates the comparative negligence scheme as a methodology for dealing with unforeseeably negligent plaintiffs rather than the proximate cause rationale.
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The Committee drafted paragraph (3) in the alternative because parts of the law on superseding cause are unclear. What is well established is that for a subsequent act to break the chain of causation and be a superseding cause, the subsequent act must be unforeseeable.
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3.1-8 Proximate Cause - Superseding Cause ... A superseding cause is any intentionally harmful act, force of nature, or criminal event, unforeseeable by the defendant, which intervenes in the sequence of events leading from the defendant's alleged negligence to the plaintiff's alleged injury and proximately causes that injury.
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On June 6, 2008, the Virginia Supreme Court addressed the superseding intervening cause instruction. The medical malpractice case of wrongful death is Williams v. Le, 276 Va. 161 (2008).
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