Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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efficient intervening cause.
See intervening cause.
intervening cause.
An event that comes between the initial event in a sequence and the end result, thereby altering the natural course of events that might have connected a wrongful act to an injury. ( If the intervening cause is strong enough to relieve the wrong doer of any liability, it becomes a superseding cause. A dependent intervening cause is one that is not an act and is never a superseding cause. An independent intervening cause is one that operates on a condition produced by an antecedent cause but in no way resulted from that cause. - Also termed intervening act; intervening agency; intervening force; in-dependent intervening cause; efficient intervening cause; supervening cause; novus actus interveniens; nova causa interveniens. See superseding cause.