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Last proximate act test, means a common law test for the crime of attempt, based on whether the defendant does the final act necessary to commit an offence (such as pulling the trigger of a gun, not merely aiming if). This test has been rejected by most courts as too lenient, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 887.