subsequent negligence

subsequent negligence
Negligence operating at the time an injury is sustained and as the cause thereof, as distinguished from negligence operating prior to the accident but in some degree connected therewith. Negligence which is the proximate, as distinguished from the remote, cause of an injury.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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