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CAUSA SINE QUA NON Definition & Legal Meaning

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Necessary or inevitable cause; a cause without which the effect in question could not have happened. Hayes v. Railroad Co., Ill U. S. 22S, 4 Sup. Ct. 309, 28 L. Ed. 410.

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