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OUJI-CIV No. 12.4
DIRECT CAUSE — DEFINITION
DIRECT CAUSE — DEFINITION
Direct cause means a cause which, in a natural and continuous sequence,
produces injury and without which the injury would not have happened. For a defect in a
product to be a direct cause it is necessary th at some injury to [the property of] a person
in [Plaintiff's] situation must have been a reasonably foreseeable result of the defect.
[There may be more than one direct cause of an injury. When an injury is the
result of a defect in a product as well as the conduct of [(another person)/(other persons)],
both the defect and the conduct of the other [person/persons] are direct causes of the
injury regardless of the extent to which each contributed to the injury.]
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- 2026-08-23
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- 2026-08-23
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