Proximate cause

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In the law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to a legally recognizable injury to be held the cause of that injury. There are two elements needed to determine proximate cause: the activity must produce a foreseeable risk, and the injury must be caused directly by the defendent's negligence.

For the notion of proximate cause in philosophy, see proximate causation.

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