FORESEEABILITY
The facility to perceive, know in advance, or rea-
sonably anticipate that damage or injury will
probably ensue from acts or omissions.
In the law of NEGLIGENCE, the foreseeability
aspect of proximate cause—the event which is
the primary cause of the injury—is established
by proof that the actor, as a person of ordinary
intelligence and circumspection, should reason-
ably have foreseen that his or her negligent act
would imperil others, whether by the event that
transpired or some similar occurrence, and
regardless of what the actor surmised would
happen in regard to the actual event or the man-
