Proximate Damages
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Proximate damages are such as are the ordinary and natural results of the omission or commission of acts of negligence, and such as are usual and might have been reasonably expected. 123 111. App. 24-25; 175 111. 406. See "Remote Damages." PROXIMITY (Lat.) Kindred between two persons. Dig. 38. 16. 8. PROXIMUS EST CUI NEMO ANTECEdit; supremus est quern nemo sequitur. He is next whom no one precedes; he is last whom no one follows. Dig. 50.il6. 92.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910