SUPERVISOR

A surveyor or overseer; a highway officer. Also, in some state the chief officer of a town; one of a board of county officers. Supervisors of election. Persons appointed and commissioned by the judge of the Circuit Court of the United States in cities or towns of over 20,000 inhabitants, upon the written application of two citizens, or in any county or parish of any … [Read more...] about SUPERVISOR

See intervening cause. … [Read more...] about SUPERVENING CAUSE

That which occurs after an event which acts so as to change what occurs, see supervening cause and intervening cause. … [Read more...] about SUPERVENE

English law. When lands, tenements, rents, goods or chattels are given, secured or appointed for and toward the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass; for the maintenance of a priest, or other man, to pray for the soul of any dead man, in such a church or elsewhere; to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, to be used at certain times to help to save the … [Read more...] about SUPERSTITIOUS USE

An action or event that occurs after an original act or event occurs that sets a series of events into motion which affects a series of events so significantly that the end result is no longer connected with the original direct cause. See intervening cause. … [Read more...] about SUPERSEDING CAUSE