natural and probable consequences

natural and probable consequences
Those ramifications of a particular course of conduct that are reasonably foreseeable by a person of average intelligence and generally occur in the normal course of events.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


natural and probable consequences
Those ramifications of a particular course of conduct that are reasonably foreseeable by a person of average intelligence and generally occur in the normal course of events.

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