- foreseeable, consequence
- conséquence f prévisible
English-French legislative terms. 2015.
English-French legislative terms. 2015.
foreseeable — [[t]fɔː(r)si͟ːəb(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If a future event is foreseeable, you know that it will happen or that it can happen, because it is a natural or obvious consequence of something else that you know. It seems to me that this crime was… … English dictionary
probable consequence doctrine — A test of proximate cause according to whether or not the injury was reasonably foreseeable by a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence. 26 Am J2d Electr § 48 … Ballentine's law dictionary
Remoteness in English Law — In the English law of negligence, the test of causation not only requires that the defendant was the cause in fact, but also requires that the loss or damage sustained by the claimant was not too remote. As with the policy issues in establishing… … Wikipedia
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Causation in English law — This article refers to the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence.In the English law of negligence, causation proves a direct link between the defendant’s negligence and the claimant’s loss and damage.… … Wikipedia
Spartan Steel and Alloys Ltd v. Martin & Co. Ltd — [1973] 1 QB 27 is a well known English Court of Appeal concerning the recovery of pure economic loss in negligence. Facts The plaintiffs had a stainless steel factory, which obtained its electricity by a direct cable from the power station. The… … Wikipedia
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Bolton v. Stone — [case citation| [1951] A.C. 850, [1951] 1 All E.R. 1078] is a leading House of Lords case in the tort of negligence, establishing that a defendant is not negligent if the damage to the plaintiff was not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his … Wikipedia
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