Causa Proxima
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The immediate, nearest, or lalast cause, Causa proxima, non remota, spectatur. The immediate, not the remote, cause, is looked at, or considered.
12 East, 648; 3 Kent, Comm. 302; Story, Bailm. § 515; Bae. Max. reg. 1.