The fact that the bouncer’s act may have been a novus actus interveniens, or an intervening act, is part of the analysis of whether legal causation has been established and whether the appellants should be held legally accountable for the death.... The Manitoba Court of Appeal held that, in order for novus actus interveniens to apply to sever legal causation, the intervening act had to be, in some way, extraordinary or unusual.

Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the illness codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).

His next appearance was in the Kentucky Derby, at Louisville, won by Aristides, but was unplaced. At the fall meeting at Lexington he was again unsuccessful in the sweepstakes for three-year olds, but three days afterward he defeated Bob Woolley and others in another sweepstakes of a mile and five furlongs.

It is however to be remarked, that these hairs are not of a spinous nature, as in the Mus fasciculatus and the Mus macrourus; they may properly be compared to bristles, having more consistence and rigidity than those of the Mus decumanus and giganteus; and in a natural arrangement, our animal stands between these species, and between those from which the character of the section is derived by M. Desmarest, and which, in a more rigorous sense, may be called spinous Rats.