Proximate Cause
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That which, In a natural and continuous sequence, unbrbken by a new cause, produced an event, and without which that event would not have occurred.
Shear. & R. Neg. § 261.