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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[A] succession of events [that] links an act or legal cause with a result or damage.  2, record 1, English, - chain%20of%20causation

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... it has been a long-standing judicial technique to isolate certain intervening forces which, in combination with the defendant's, default, precipitate or aggravate the plaintiff's injury. The question then arises whether the original wrongdoer is to be held for loss contributed to by the external force or whether, in the favoured legal vernacular, it "snapped the chain of causation".  3, record 1, English, - chain%20of%20causation

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

chaîne causale : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 1, French, - cha%C3%AEne%20causale

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Causal connection is apt to prove more troublesome when the alleged cause of the injury ... consists in the failure to act and proof is required that the doing of the act would have prevented that injury.  3, record 2, English, - causal%20connection

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

... it is important to recall that a causal relation must exist not just between the injury and the relevant act or omission, but specifically between the injury and that aspect of the conduct which is wrongful.  3, record 2, English, - causal%20connection

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

lien de causalité: terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 2, French, - lien%20de%20causalit%C3%A9

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish