noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
break
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The defendants were held not liable for this injury, as the plaintiff's unreasonable conduct broke the chain of causation .
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The defendant was held liable for the loss, as the thief's act did not break the chain of causation .
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In order to break the chain of causation the third party act must be independent of the breach of duty.
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He considered whether the boys' acts broke the chain of causation .
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Where the third party act is negligent, it may or may not break the chain of causation .
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The second accident did not break the chain of causation as it was a natural consequence of the first accident.
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If the act should have been foreseen by a reasonable man as likely, it would not break the chain of causation .
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This will be treated as a novus actus interveniens which breaks the chain of causation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A strong association, however, is not a proof of causation .
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It is also necessary for the plaintiff to prove causation .
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It is important to understand that such identities do not imply causation .
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Once triggered, however, a process of cumulative causation sets in.
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The House held that the burden of proof of causation remained on the plaintiff throughout the case.
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The prevalent analyses of causation seem justifiably only to allow events and possibly agents as causes.
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Weber himself seems to take a Humean or Positivist view of causation .