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# O.C.G.A. § 51-12-9. How remoteness ascertained.

Damages which are the legal and natural result of the act done, though contingent to some extent, are not too remote to be recovered. However, damages traceable to the act, but which are not its legal and natural consequence, are too remote and contingent to be recovered.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3005; Code 1868, § 3018; Code 1873, § 3073; Code 1882, § 3073; Civil Code 1895, § 3913; Civil Code 1910, § 4510; Code 1933, § 105-2009.

## 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, ‘‘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).

For comment on Robinson v. Pollard, 131 Ga. App. 105, 205 S.E.2d 86 (1974), holding owner of motor vehicle has no duty to third person injured by intermeddler, see 26 Mercer L. Rev. 373 (1974).