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At a distance; afar off. See Causa Proxima; Measure of Damages.

This word is used In law chiefly as the antithesis of "proximate," and conveys the idea of mediateness or of the Intervention of something else.

— Remote cause. In the law of negligence, a "remote" cause of an accident or injury is one which does not by itself alone produce the given result, but which sets in motion another cause, calied the "proximate" cause, which immediately brings about the given effect; or, as otherwise defined, it is "that which may have happened and yet no injury have occurred, notwithstanding that no injury could have occurred if it had not happened." See Troy v. Railroad Co., 99 N. C. 298, 6 S. E. 77, 6 Am. St. Rep. 521; Maryland Steel Co., v. Mamey, 88 Md. 482, 42 Atl. 60, 42 In R. A. 842, 71 Am. St. Rep. 441; Hoey v. Metropolitan St. Ry. Co.., 70 App. Div. 60, 74 N. Y. Supp. 1113 ; Clay-pool v. Wigmore, 34 Ind. App. 35, 71 N. E. 509.

— Remote damage. Damage is said to be too remote to be actionable when it is not the legal and natural consequence of the act complained of.

— Remote possibility. In the law of estates, a double possibility, or a limitation dependent on two or more facts or events both or all of which are contingent and uncertain; as, for example, the limitation of an estate to a given man provided that he shall marry a certain woman and that she shali then die and he shall marry another.

See Damages: Dominion.