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OUJI-CIV No. 9.6

DIRECT CAUSE — DEFINITION

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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 negligence to be a

direct cause it is necessary that some injury to [the property of] a person in [Plaintiff's]

situation must have been a reasonably foreseeable result of negligence.

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2026-08-23
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