English Dictionary

novus actus interveniens

名詞

不可算名詞

(law) A doctrine of law that, in certain circumstances, an intervening event can break the chain of causation between a person's action and its result, potentially depriving that person of legal liability for the result; such an intervening event.

日本語の意味

（法律用語）特定の状況下で、介在する新たな行為が、元の行為とその結果との因果関係を断絶し、その結果に対する法的責任を免除または軽減するという法理を指す。

The court concluded that the chain of causation had been broken by a novus actus interveniens when a third party's unforeseeable actions caused the injury.

裁判所は、第三者の予見できない行為が傷害を引き起こしたため、因果関係の連鎖が新たな介在行為によって断たれたと結論付けた。

意味（1）

(law) A doctrine of law that, in certain circumstances, an intervening event can break the chain of causation between a person's action and its result, potentially depriving that person of legal liability for the result; such an intervening event.

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.