Proximate
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Immediate; nearest; next in order. It has become a maxim in insurance law that a loss is to be attributed to the proximate cause, and not to the remote cause. So it is a fundamental rule in the law of damages, that they are to be allowed, in general, only for the proximate consequences of the wrong.