intervening between

  • 41efficient intervening cause — A cause intervening the negligence of the defendant and the occurrence of injury to the plaintiff, without which the injury would not have occurred. 38 Am J1st Negl § 68. A new and independent force, which breaks the causal connection between the …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 42dependent intervening cause — A conclusory label used by the common law to refer to a cause that intervenes between the defendant s behavior and a given result such that it is still fair to hold the defendant responsible for the result. See also cause …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 43dependent intervening cause — A conclusory label used by the common law to refer to a cause that intervenes between the defendant s behavior and a given result such that it is still fair to hold the defendant responsible for the result. See also cause …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 44interval — /ˈɪntəvəl / (say intuhvuhl) noun 1. an intervening period of time: an interval of fifty years. 2. a period of cessation; a pause: intervals between attacks. 3. a period during which action temporarily ceases; a break, as between acts of a play in …

  • 45interpose — verb ( posed; posing) Etymology: Middle French interposer, from Latin interponere (perfect indicative interposui), from inter + ponere to put more at position Date: 1582 transitive verb 1. a. to place in an intervening position b. to put… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 46General Chronology —     General Chronology     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► General Chronology     Chronology (Greek chronos time, logos, discourse), the science of time measurement, has two branches:     ♦ Mathematical Chronology, which determines the units to be… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 47Chronology of the Life of Jesus Christ —     Chronology of the Life of Jesus Christ     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Chronology of the Life of Jesus Christ     In the following paragraphs we shall endeavour to establish the absolute and relative chronology of our Lord s life, i.e. we shall …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 48Middle — Mid dle (m[i^]d d l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]271. See {Mid}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 49Middle Ages — Middle Mid dle (m[i^]d d l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]271. See {Mid}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 50Middle class — Middle Mid dle (m[i^]d d l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]271. See {Mid}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English