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  • 61Irreparable damage or injury — An irreparable damage or injury is, in tort law or equity, the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were.... [ [http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp?selected=1031 bold=%7C%7C%7C%7C Law… …

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  • 62Radiation damage — is a term associated with ionizing radiation.CausesThis radiation may take several forms: *Cosmic rays and subsequent energetic particles caused by their collision with the atmosphere and other materials. *Radioactive daughter products… …

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  • 63producing cause — Respecting broker s commission, is act which, continuing in unbroken chain of cause and effect, produces result. Schebesta v. Stewart, Tex.Civ. App., 37 S.W.2d 781, 786. A producing cause of an employee s death for which compensation is sought is …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 64direct and proximate cause — The immediate reason that something happened that caused harm to another person. The words are often used together, as in The defendant s negligent act in running the red light was the direct and proximate cause of the plaintiff s injuries. (See… …

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  • 65proximate cause — prox‧i‧mate cause [ˌprɒksmt ˈkɔːz ǁ ˌprɑːksmt ˈkɒːz] noun [countable] LAW the thing that is directly responsible for an event happening: • Pilots breaches of duty and negligence were a proximate cause of the plane crash. * * * proximate cause …

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  • 66Intervening cause — An intervening cause is a potential defense to the tort of negligence, if it is an unforeseeable, and therefore superseding intervening cause, rather than a foreseeable intervening cause.For example, if a defendant had carelessly spilled gasoline …

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  • 67accrual of cause of action — The event whereby a cause of action becomes complete so that the aggrieved party can begin and maintain his cause of action. A cause may accrue at the moment of the wrong, default, or delict by the defendant and the injury to the plaintiff,… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 68legal cause — The proximate cause of damage. 22 Am J2d Damg § 20. The proximate cause of an injury. 38 Am J1st Negl §§ 49 et seq. See proximate cause …

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  • 69proximate cause — The dominant and effective cause of an event or chain of events that results in a claim on an insurance policy. The loss must be caused directly, or as a result of a chain of events initiated, by an insured peril. For example, a policy covering… …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 70irreparable damage or injury — n.    the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were, such as cutting down shade trees, polluting a stream, not giving a child needed medication, not supporting an excavation which may cause… …

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