CAUSE AND

CONDITION
TEST
BY:PSYCHE SHYNE P.
 CAUSE AND
CONDITION TEST
Cause and Condition Test:
If the defendant has created only a
passive, static condition which made the
damage possible, he is said not to be
liable.
 CAUSE AND
CONDITION TEST
Cause and Conditions
• It is no longer practicable to distinguish
between cause and condition.
• The defendant may be liable even if only
created conditions, if the conditions resulted in
harm to either person or property.
 examples of
dangerous conditions

• Those that are inherently dangerous

• Those where a person places a thing which is not
dangerous in itself in a dangerous position.
• Those involving products and other things which are
dangerous because they are defective.
 NATURAL AND
PROBABLE
CONDITION TEST
 NATURAL AND
PROBABLE
CONSEQUENCE TEST
Natural and Probable Consequences Test:
The defendant is liable only if the harm
suffered is the natural and probable
consequences of his act.
THANK YOU