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Määritelmät

Prepositio

  1. Except, except for; save for; not counting; were it not for; had it not been for.
  2. despite; in spite of

Adjektiivi

  1. (law) Pertaining to a test of causation whereby an agent or action is considered to have caused an event (and therefore to be responsible and/or liable for said event) if, had said agent or action not existed, the event would not have taken place.

Esimerkit

  • She had a woman to take care of her called Mrs Poole — an able woman in her line, and very trustworthy, but for one fault — a fault common to a deal of them nurses and matrons — she kept a bottle of gin by her, and now and then took a drop over-much.
  • But for that beneficent drug, not one of those men would have slept a moment during that fearful night.
  • In the whole extent of the house, which but for the old woman remained otherwise empty, Mr. Hyde had only used a couple of rooms
  • But for the stinging cold of January, this Casanova would not have taken shelter behind the coffeehouse window, […].
  • This relevance can in many cases, as here, be tested by the sine qua non or ' but for ' rule.
  • When the expert constructs the "but for" world, he or she must construct it by taking into account how the plaintiff could have adjusted or did adjust to the changed circumstances.
  • But it is important to realise that but for causation is no more than indicative of true legal causation.
  • But in important ways the ' but for ' test obscures the true role played by causal principles in assessing legal responsibility.

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