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# O.C.G.A. § 51-12-8. When damage too remote for recovery generally.

If the damage incurred by the plaintiff is only the imaginary or possible result of a tortious act or if other and contingent circumstances preponderate in causing the injury, such damage is too remote to be the basis of recovery against the wrongdoer.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3004; Code 1868, § 3017; Code 1873, § 3072; Code 1882, § 3072; Civil Code 1895, § 3912; Civil Code 1910, § 4509; Code 1933, § 105-2008.

## Law Reviews

For article discussing plaintiff conduct and the emerging doctrine of comparative causation of torts, see 29 Mercer L. Rev. 403 (1978). For article, ‘‘Pre-Impact Pain and Suffering,’’ see 26 Ga. St. B. J. 60 (1989). For article, ‘‘Jury Instructions and Proximate Cause: An Uncertain Trumpet in Georgia,’’ see 27 Ga. St. B. J. 60 (1990).

For note discussing tavern keeper liability in Georgia for injury caused by a person to whom an intoxicant was sold, see 9 Ga. L. Rev. 239 (1974).