Practice question
Which statement follows the cited cases concerning an earlier negligent event?
- It is irrelevant whenever another event follows it.
- It must always displace every later cause.
- It is proximate solely because it occurred first.
- It cannot cause injury through a physical object.
- It can remain proximate if it sets foreseeable events in motion through a natural, unbroken causal sequence.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, article2176.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html — Abrogar v Cosmos Bottling, GR 164749, March 15 2017, main opinion: temporal proximity and natural causal chain.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jun2023/gr_254395_2023.html — Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative v Heirs of Lucas, GR 254395, June 14 2023, main opinion: earlier operative negligence despite later events.
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