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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2504
Negligence - Proximate Cause
In order for [name of defendant] to be legally responsible for [name of plaintiff]’s
damages, [name of defendant]’s negligence must have (1) actually caused [name of plaintiff]’s
damages and (2) a reasonable [person/business/corporation] would have anticipated that some
damages would occur as a result of [name of defendant]’s negligence.
In order to be a legal cause, [name of defendant]’s negligence must have been a
substantial factor in causing [name of plaintiff]’s damages. If [name of plaintiff] would have
suffered damages even if [name of defendant] had not been negligent, then [name of defendant]’s
negligence was not a substantial factor in causing [name of plaintiff]’s damages.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2504 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
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