intervening
31intervening cause — A cause which supersedes a prior wrong as the proximate cause of an injury by breaking the sequence between the prior wrong and the injury. Mahoney v Beatman, 110 Conn 184, 146 A 762, 66 ALR 1121. The test of the sufficiency of an intervening… …
32Intervening sequence — Part of a gene that is initially transcribed from the DNA into the primary RNA transcript but then is excised (removed) from it when the so called exxon sequences on either side of it are spliced together. Intervening sequences, which are also… …
33intervening variables — A notion that is an essential part of the deductive structure of a scientific theory, but itself does not refer to a real thing or aspect of things. An intervening variable may have no physical reality, although it organizes thought about things… …
34intervening act — Such act of third person in order to break chain of causation and obviate liability for original breach of duty must be a superseding cause and one which original wrongdoer was not bound to anticipate as the natural or ordinary result of his acts …
35intervening act — Such act of third person in order to break chain of causation and obviate liability for original breach of duty must be a superseding cause and one which original wrongdoer was not bound to anticipate as the natural or ordinary result of his acts …
36intervening agency — An act or omission which comes between cause and effect. Ahern v Oregon Tel. & Tel. Co. 24 Or 276, 33 P 403, 35 P 549. See intervening cause …
37intervening efficient cause — See efficient intervening cause …
38intervening force — See intervening cause …
39intervening — 1. noun intervention; mediation 2. adjective that intervenes or mediates …
40intervening — Synonyms and related words: arbitrational, arbitrative, coming between, going between, intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervenient, interventional,… …
