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Remoteness

Remoteness, want of close connection between a wrong and the injury, as cause and effect, whereby the party injured

a judgment the adverse effect on the party concerned must be direct and immediate rather than indirect or remote. For instance, where the Trial Judge in a suit under Order 37 of the Code of Civil Procedure … general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100]. The several

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In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur

In jure non remota causa, sed proxima spectatur [Lat.], In law the proximate, and not the remote, cause is to be regarded. --Bacon, max., reg. 1.--(In law, the proximate, and not the remote, cause is regarded.) … not the remote, cause is to be regarded. --Bacon, max., reg. 1.--(In law, the proximate, and not the remote, cause is regarded.) The maxim is chiefly applied to cases of marine insurance, as to which it was held

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Measure of damage

actual loss cannot always be recovered, as the whole or a portion of the loss may be too remote to be the natural and probable consequence of that which constitutes the cause of action, and this will

Bare trustee

for a conveyance of it. Although this simplified conveyancing where the legal estate in the trustee was only remote, it was found that great inconvenience would be caused in cases where the legal estate in the trustee … where the legal estate in the trustee was only remote, it was found that great inconvenience would be caused in cases where the legal estate in the trustee related to the entirety of the property in question

Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem vel causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur

causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur [Lat.], An un-necessary clause or disposition is not upheld by a remote presumption or a cause arising after the event.

Merger

as well as between two. (2) The several estates must be immediately expectant upon each other; the more remote estate must be without any intervening vested estate or contingent remainder created in the same instant of time … means which originated the other estate; and the determination or acquisition of an intermediate estate may be the cause of merger, as between estates kept distinct by means of such intermediate estate. (3) The estate in reversion

Accumulation

other persons. See Re Heathcote, (1904) 1 Ch 826; or (2) For raising portions for any child or remoter issue of the grantor, settlor or testator, or any child or remoter issue of any person taking any … a restraint upon those trusts for accumulation which aim at a duration beyond the statutory limits, simply by causing them to cease and become of no effect immediately upon the appropriate statutory period becoming exceeded, and until

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