A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. REASON, in the English language, is sometimes taken for true and clear principles sometimes for clear and fair deductions sometimes for the cause, particularly the final cause.ĥ. The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel-watch is by motion of the next wheel.
Spain in thin sown of people, partly by reason of its sterility of soil Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. The cause, ground, principle or motive of any thing said or done that which supports or justifies a determination, plan or measure. The judge assigns good reasons for his opinion, reasons which justify his decision. I have reasons which I may choose not to disclose. That which is thought or which is alleged in words, as the ground or cause of opinion, conclusion or determination. 244, 251–52, 135 P.3d 536 (2006), it was not error to refuse WPI 15.04 when both defendants admitted liability (successive car accidents) but disagreed on which defendant caused particular medical expenses.REASON, noun re'zn. 357,361–62, 674 P.2d 679 (1984) (failure to give WPI 15.04 was error, but harmless given the jury's special verdict findings), overruled on other grounds Brown v. Puget Sound Power and Light Co., Inc., 100 Wn.2d 204 (failure to give WPI 15.04 was reversible error) Jones v. WPI 15.01 does not inform the jury that the act of another person does not excuse the defendant's negligence unless the other person's negligence was the sole proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries. Failure to give WPI 15.04 (Negligence of Defendant Concurring with Other Causes) may be reversible error even though WPI 15.01 is given including the bracketed last paragraph. 510, 523, 15 P.3d 180 (2000) (jury question whether had juvenile offender's score been non-negligently calculated, he would have been in prison and unable to murder plaintiff decedent).Īn instruction setting forth the legal effect of multiple proximate causes is necessary when both sides raise complex theories of multiple causation. 227, 239, 95 P.3d 764 (2004) (estate could not show that, but for negligent supervision, parolee would have been in jail and unable to kill plaintiff decedent) Estate of Jones v. The question of proximate cause in this context is ordinarily for the jury unless the facts are undisputed and do not admit reasonable differences of opinion, in which case cause in fact is a question of law for the court. WPI 15.01 describes proximate cause in this factual sense. Cause in fact refers to the “but for” consequences of an act-the physical connection between an act and an injury. Proximate cause under Washington law recognizes two elements: cause in fact and legal causation.
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