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Definition :

Remoteness, want of close connection between a wrong and the injury, as cause and effect, whereby the party injured cannot claim compensation from the wrongdoer. Where the damage sustained by the plaintiff is neither the necessary nor the probable result of the defendant's conduct, nor such as can be shown to have been in his contemplation at the time, it will be excluded as too remote. Consult Maine on Damages, and see CAUSA CAUSANS. The term is also often used to signify an infraction of the rule against perpetuity, a limitation exceeding the prescribed limits being said to be 'void for remoteness.' See Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 163, and PERPETUITIES. Consult Gray on Perpetuities.