remote cause

remote cause
A speculative rather than a direct cause of injury, consequently no basis for the recovery of damages. 22 Am J2d Damg § 21. A cause which is not sufficiently proximate as to constitute the foundation of all action for negligence. 38 Am J1st Negl § 53. A cause so remote in efficiency in reference to injury or cause of loss as to be dismissed from consideration by the court. Mahoney v Beatman, 110 Conn 184, 147 A 762, 66 ALR 1121. If two distinct causes are successive and unrelated in their operation, they cannot be concurrent. One of them must be the proximate and the other the remote cause, and the law will regard the proximate as the efficient and responsible cause, disregarding the remote cause. 38 Am J1st Negl § 67.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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