Legal Definition and Related Resources of Intervening Agency

An act or event that break; the chain of causation in relation to a tortious wrong and negates liability arising ou of the original breach of duty to take care. With respect to the doctrine of proximate cause in the law of negligence , the term does not mean a concurrent or contributing cause , but a superseding cause, which is itself the natural and logical cause of harm or the immediate and direct cause of the injury . A new invective cause which operating independently of anything else, is the operative cause of the injury. A defendant , however, will not ordinarily be relieved of liability by intervening cause which could reasonably have been foreseen nor by one which is a normal incident of the risk created but will be relieved only by foreseeable and abnormal intervening cause which produces a result which could not have been foreseen.

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