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cause

experience does not lead to a particular effect compare proximate cause in this entry su·per·sed·ing cause : an unforeseeable intervening cause that interrupts the chain of causation and becomes the proximate cause of the effect called also

force

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 : force majeure 2 : a body

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manifest necessity

unavailability of an essential witness, juror misconduct, or illness of counsel) which is of such an overwhelming and unforeseeable nature that the conduct of trial or reaching of a fair result is impossible and which necessitates the

supervene

: to take place after or later in the course of something else as an additional and usually unforeseeable development with intervening or countering effect

unavoidable accident

accident : an accident that is not proximately caused by the negligence of any party or that is unforeseeable or not preventable by exercise of reasonable precautions and for which liability based on fault is not imposed

Qui improvide

Qui improvide, means 'who unforeseeably' a supersedes granted when a writ is erroneously sued out or wrongfully awarded, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

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