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Causation In Fact

▪ Also known as Actual cause or factual cause

➢ but for the defendant’s breach of duty, you would not have suffered

damages or injuries. In other words, the defendant’s breach caused a
chain of event that led directly to your damages.

▪ Proximate cause

➢ the defendant’s breach of duty was close in time and space such that

it was reasonably foreseeable that the breach of duty would cause

your damages.