remote

At a distance; afar off; inconsiderable; slight

@ remote cause

In the law of negligence with respect to injury or accident, a cause which would not according to experience of mankind lead to the event which happened. Riley v. Burgess, Ky., 410 S.W.2d 712, 713.

One where the effect is uncertain, vague, or indeterminate, and where the effect does not necessarily follow. Jaggers v. Southeastern Greyhound Lines, D.C.Tenn., 34 F.Supp. 667, 669.

A cause operating mediately through other causes to produce effect. Improbable cause. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Harrell, 21 Tenn.App. 353, 110 S.W.2d 1032, 1038.

See also cause

Proximate cause distinguished.

"proximate cause" is cause in which is involved idea of necessity, and one from which effect must follow, while "remote cause", though necessary for existence of effect, is one not necessarily implying existence of effect. Hebert v. United Gas Pipe Line Co., La.App., 210 So.2d 71, 74.

"Proximate cause" is a cause which would probably, according to the experience of mankind, lead to the event which happened, and "remote cause" is a cause which would not, according to such experience, lead to such an event. Miller v. Watts, Ky., 436 S.W.2d 515, 519.

To determine whether a given cause is a "proximate cause" or a "remote cause," it must be determined whether the facts constitute a succession of events, so linked together that they become a natural whole, or whether chain of events is so broken that they become independent, and final result cannot be said to be the natural and probable consequence of the primary cause, the negligence of defendants

@ remote damage

See damages

@ remoteness

Want of close connection between a wrong and the injury which prevents the party injured from claiming compensation from the wrongdoer

@ remoteness of evidence

When the fact or facts proposed to be established as a foundation from which indirect evidence may be drawn, by way of inference, have not a visible, plain, or necessary connection with the proposition eventually to be proved, such evidence is rejected for "remoteness."

@ 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 shall then die and he shall marry another

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