Scott V Shepherd
Scott v. Shepherd 96 Eng. Rep. 525 (K.B. 1773), commonly known as "the famous Squib Case," is an important English tort law case on remoteness and the principle of novus actus interveniens as it related to the division between trespass and case.
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