- intervening agency
- An act or omission which comes between cause and effect. Ahern v Oregon Tel. & Tel. Co. 24 Or 276, 33 P 403, 35 P 549. See intervening cause.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
intervening agency
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