Intervening Cause - Law Dictionary Search Results
efficient intervening cause
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intervening cause
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force
force that acts after another's negligent act or omission has occurred and that causes injury to another : intervening cause at cause irresistible force : an unforeseeable event esp. that prevents performance of an obligation under a contract
Intervention
or suits in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court. An intervener must take the cause as he finds it at the time of his intervention, and can only do what he might have … Intervention. A third person not originally a party to a suit, but claiming an interest in the matter, may
King's proctor
to defeat collusion or the suppression of material facts. In his official capacity he cannot intervene to show cause against a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage being made absolute without the leave of the Court, Gray … solicitor representing the Crown in the Probate and Divorce Court. In proper cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion or the suppression of
interest
or level of involvement (as financial involvement) esp. that warrants recognition or causes bias [had a right to intervene because of an in the litigation] [recused himself due to an in the matter] see also conflict of … royalty 2 : a specific concern or level of involvement (as financial involvement) esp. that warrants recognition or causes bias [had a right to intervene because of an in the litigation] [recused himself due to an in
chain of causation
chain of causation :the causal connection between an original cause and its subsequent effects esp. as a basis for criminal or civil liability [intervening acts of third parties
Merger
law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into possession the expectant which swallows up the particular estate. It is the … means which originated the other estate; and the determination or acquisition of an intermediate estate may be the cause of merger, as between estates kept distinct by means of such intermediate estate. (3) The estate in reversion
Mesne process
a person shall not be arrested upon mesne process in any action.' Nevertheless, where a plaintiff has good cause of action against the defendant to the amount of 50l. or upwards, and the defendant is about to … Mesne process, all those writs which intervene in the progress of a suit or action between its beginning and end, as contradistinguished from primary and
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