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liability
defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and uncertainty as to which act was the proximate cause of an injury compare concert of action civil liability : liability imposed under civil laws and civil process … or manufacturer called also product liability NOTE: A plaintiff usually must show that a defective product was the proximate cause of injuries, was defective at the time of purchase, and was used for its intended purpose in order
In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur
In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur [Lat.], In law the proximate, and not the remote, cause is to be regarded. --Bacon, max., reg. 1.--(In law, the proximate, and not
rescue doctrine
doctrine : a common-law doctrine that permits a plaintiff to recover from a party whose negligence was the proximate cause of a peril from which the plaintiff reasonably undertook to rescue a third party NOTE: The act of … act of rescue itself is considered foreseeable, and the negligence of the defendant is considered to be the proximate cause of injury to the rescuer as well as to the one rescued.
Causa causans
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
Perils of the sea
or their servants, the damage was held to be due to a peril of the sea (as the proximate cause) and within the exception. The word peril, like periculum, Lat., from which it is derived, is in itself
Contributory negligence
that it was this negligence on the part of the plaintiff, and not his own, that was the proximate or decisive cause of the injury for which the plaintiff now seeks to recover damages from him. This
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