CONTRIBUTE - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONTRIBUTE? Definition of CONTRIBUTE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

To lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common  purpose;  to have a share in any  act or effect; to discharge a joint  obligation.  Christman v. Reichholdt, Mo.App., 150  S. W.2d 527, 532; James McCord  Co. v. Citizens  Hotel Co., Tex.Civ.App., 287 S.W. 906; Park v. Missionary Soc., 62 Vt. 19, 20 A. 107.

As applied to negligence signifies  causal connection between injury and negligence,  which transcends  and is distinguished  from negligent  acts or omissions  which play so minor  a part in producing injuries  that law does not recognize them as legal causes. Connellan v. Coffey, 122 Conn. 136, 187 A. 901, 903.

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