Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
direct and proximate cause
See proximate cause.
efficient proximate cause
See proximate !use under CAUSE (1).
efficient proximate cause.
See proximate cause
proximate cause
1. A cause that is legally sufficient to result in liability. 2. A cause that directly produces an event and without which the event would not have occurred. - Also termed direct cause; direct and proximate cause; efficient proximate cause; efficient cause; efficient adequate cause; legal cause; procuring cause; producing cause; primary cause; jural cause. "The four 'tests' or 'clues' of proximate cause in a criminal case are (1) expediency, (2) isolation, (3) foresee ability and (4) intention." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 823 (3d ed. 1982)." 'Proximate cause' - in itself an unfortunate term - is merely the limitation which the courts have placed upon the actor's responsibility for the consequences of the actor's conduct. In a philosophical sense, the consequences of an act go forward to ete