concausa
Concausa is a legal term used in civil and tort law to describe an intervening or superseding cause that interrupts the causal chain between a party’s conduct and an injury. The word comes from Latin, with con- meaning together and causa meaning cause, and it is employed in several European jurisdictions to analyze liability for harm.
In practice, a concausa arises when an independent event or factor occurs after the defendant’s act and
Concausa is distinct from causa concorrente (concurrent cause), where two or more factors contribute to the
See also: intervening cause, superseding cause, chain of causation, proximate cause, contributory negligence. The term is