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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
concurring cause
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concurring cause — A cause which operates contemporaneously with the primary cause to produce the injury, so that the injury would not have happened in the absence of either. The phrase is contrasted with an intervening cause, a cause which succeeds or follows the… … Ballentine's law dictionary
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