proximate cause
Noun
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Noun
proximate cause (plural proximate causes)
- (legal) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
- Spanish: causa inmediata
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