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Causa causans, the immediate cause; the last link in the chain of causation. Not the cause of which the proximate cause is an effect but the nearest cause of the damage or effect for which relief is sought, see Reischer v. Borwick, 1894, QB 548; Dudgeon v. Pembroke, (1874) 2 AC 284. See Cullerne v. London, etc.Building Society, (1890) 25 QBD 485.