A legal doctrine providing that one may be liable to another if (1) he or she owes a legal duty to the other; (2) he or she materially breaches that duty; (3) the breach is the proximate cause of the other’s injury; and (4) the other person suffers damages. (http://www.ovc.gov/library/glossary.html)
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