Practice question
Why is the immediate physical cause not automatically identical to legal proximate cause?
- The last event never matters.
- The defendant can choose any preferred event.
- Legal causation examines the natural continuous chain and efficient interruption, not merely the last physical event.
- Civil courts cannot examine physical events.
- Every earlier act is always proximate.
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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