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Definition of Proximate
1. Adjective. Closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects. "Interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals"
2. Adjective. Very close in space or time. "Proximate houses"
Definition of Proximate
1. a. Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
Definition of Proximate
1. Adjective. Close or closest; adjacent. ¹
2. Adjective. (legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. ¹
3. Adjective. About to take place; impending. ¹
4. Noun. (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proximate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proximate
Literary usage of Proximate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The petition as amended makes it issuable as to proximate cause and the acts of
negligence, therefore the demurrer is overruled." There can be no difference ..."
2. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"(Ch. 16 DISEASE INDUCED BY ACCIDENT—proximate CAUSE. 233. It frequently occurs
that the death of the person insured under an accident policy is caused by ..."
3. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from by Frederick Pollock (1892)
"But it was not the whole proximate cause. The other and decisive cause which
concurred was the plaintiff's failure to gee and avoid the pole in his way. ..."
4. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from by Frederick Pollock (1895)
"Here it can hardly be said that the position of the pole across the road was not
a proximate cause of the fall. But it was not the whole proximate cause. ..."
5. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"proximate and natural consequences. With the qualification stated in the following
sections a plaintiff can recover for breach of contract compensation for ..."
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