remote cause
- A cause that encounters an intervening cause that halts the sequence of causation
- During the trial, the defense argued that the plaintiff's injury was a result of a remote cause, not the defendant's actions.
- The professor clarified that a remote cause is not the direct reason for an event, as it gets disrupted by another intervening cause.
- The lawyer pinpointed a remote cause to weaken the plaintiff's claim of negligence on part of his client.
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