Practice question
A delivery business negligently disregards a mandatory legal safety rule. A separate unforeseeable event wholly unrelated to the violation causes the claimant’s loss, and no causal link to the violation is proved. The claimant says violation alone establishes all Article 20 damages. Which is correct?
- Every violation causes every later loss as a matter of law
- The claimant need prove only dislike of the business
- Negligence eliminates any causation requirement
- A safety rule can never support civil relief
- The unlawful act must cause the claimed damage; the missing causal link cannot be supplied by the violation alone
Legal references
- Civil Code, Article 20: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/53360
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