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Practice question: Remote Cause

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A donor only supplies funds and exercises no safety functions. Evidence identifies the organizer’s separate negligent operation as causing injury, with no actionable causal conduct by the donor. Is funding alone sufficient?
  1. Yes; funding alone creates liability for every injury.
  2. Yes; the organizer’s negligence is automatically imputed to every donor.
  3. No; organizers also can never be liable.
  4. No; the donor’s required actionable causal connection remains unproved.
  5. Yes; the claimant may omit causation entirely.

Legal references

  • Civil Code Articles 2176 and 2194: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
  • Abrogar v. Cosmos Bottling Company, G.R. No. 164749, March 15, 2017, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html

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