Question

Cause in fact is also known as __________

a. proximate cause
b. legal cause
c. actual cause
d. nominal cause
e. no cause

Answer 1

A. proximate cause

In law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause.