causation of injury or loss
• (n.) That which causes damage or loss.
Dam`ni·fi·ca'tion noun [ Late Latin damnificatio .] That which causes damage or loss. 
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another. For example, when a society has entered into an obligation to pay the debt of the principal, and the principal has become bound in a bond to indemuify the surety, the latter has suffered a damnification the moment he becomes liable to be sued for the debt of the...