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That which actually precipitates an accident or injury.

The term efficient cause is frequently used interchangeably with proximate cause—the immediate act in the production of a particular effect—or the cause that sets the others in operation.

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The four causes are: the material cause (for example, water, oil, bread, and wine); the formal cause (the precise words of the minister); the efficient cause (the role of the priest); and the final cause (the conferral of grace). Bread & wine: what's essential to the Eucharist? by Osborne, Kenan B. / Commonweal There is, Aquinas asserts, no known instance "in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself, because in that case it would be prior to itself, which is impossible. The Harmony of Faith and Reason: Today faith is often seen as ... by Behreandt, Dennis J. / The New American Therefore, to entitle a broker to compensation, courts offered an assortment of definitions on what efforts constitute procuring cause including: efforts which "effected the sale," efforts which were the "direct and efficient cause of the sale," "efforts and instrumentality through which the transaction was induced," efforts that were "the producing cause" and efforts which were the "predominantly efficient cause and really effective means which effected a sale. Brokerage Law: Procuring Cause -- Revisited by ANWARZAI, MARIAM / Real Estate Weekly More results

The four causes are: the material cause (for example, water, oil, bread, and wine); the formal cause (the precise words of the minister); the efficient cause (the role of the priest); and the final cause (the conferral of grace).

Bread & wine: what's essential to the Eucharist? by Osborne, Kenan B. / Commonweal

There is, Aquinas asserts, no known instance "in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself, because in that case it would be prior to itself, which is impossible.

The Harmony of Faith and Reason: Today faith is often seen as ... by Behreandt, Dennis J. / The New American

Therefore, to entitle a broker to compensation, courts offered an assortment of definitions on what efforts constitute procuring cause including: efforts which "effected the sale," efforts which were the "direct and efficient cause of the sale," "efforts and instrumentality through which the transaction was induced," efforts that were "the producing cause" and efforts which were the "predominantly efficient cause and really effective means which effected a sale.

Brokerage Law: Procuring Cause -- Revisited by ANWARZAI, MARIAM / Real Estate Weekly

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