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" The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. "
The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and ... - Page 181
edited by - 1894
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory ..., Volume 38

Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1912 - 666 pages
...must be found by the jury to have been the proximate cause of the injury, denned to be "that cause, which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new cause, produced the injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred," and the court leaving to...
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The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the ..., Volumes 157-158

1908 - 2268 pages
...maintained' must be the proximate cause of the Injury sustained ; and the proximate cause of an event is that which In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and Independent cause, produces that event, and without which, that event would not have occurred."...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 94

1908 - 1164 pages
...proximate causes, and not merely as a condition. In volume G, p. 5700, of Words and Phrases, it is stated: "The proximate cause of an event must be understood...in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by a new cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." The term "proximate...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 163

1917 - 1212 pages
...definition of "proximate cause" found in the books is either the following or some of Its paraphrases: "Ttie proximate cause of an event must be understood to...natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." 1 Shearman...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 126

1920 - 960 pages
...understood to be that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred." Shearman & Redfield (Cth Ed.) g 26. Judge Cooley in his work on Torts, p. 60, states the rule as follows:...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 97

1916 - 1116 pages
...speed upon him." "The proximate cause of an event," It Is said in 1 Shear. & Red. Neg. (6th Ed.) § 26, "must be understood to be that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, Independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. * * *...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 89

1914 - 1166 pages
...event, we have said that it was one "which, In a natural sequence, unbroken by any new and intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation, separated from its effect by no other act of causation."...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 84

1913 - 1140 pages
...of an event Juridically considered, which In a natural sequence, unbroken by a new and Intervening cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred. It must be an efficient act of causation separated from Its effect by no other act of causation." But...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 49

1901 - 1162 pages
...walked into it. If he bad stood still, both plaintiffs were safe. Proximate cause, as I repeat, is that which, In a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, Independent cause, produces an event. He was standing In the highway, and he was Injured in consequence...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 14

1891 - 1250 pages
...rejection would make nearly all reported cases on the question involved unintelligible. Theproximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which,...without which that event would not have occurred. Proximately in point of time or space, however, is no part of the definition. That is of no importance...
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