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Legal cause

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-002964

A cause that is sufficiently related to an injury to hold the defendant legally responsible for that injury, also known as proximate cause. This concept limits a defendant's liability to those harms that are a foreseeable consequence of their actions. It requires a direct causal link between the defendant's conduct and the plaintiff's injury, beyond mere factual causation.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-002964
FieldLaw
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  "definition": "A cause that is sufficiently related to an injury to hold the defendant legally responsible for that injury, also known as proximate cause. This concept limits a defendant's liability to those harms that are a foreseeable consequence of their actions. It requires a direct causal link between the defendant's conduct and the plaintiff's injury, beyond mere factual causation.",
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