Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
re·moteFunction:
adjectiveInflected Forms:
re·mot·er;
-est 1 a : far removed in space, time, or relation
remote degree> b : exceeding the time allowed under the rule against perpetuities for the vesting of interests remote vesting —Estate of Grove, 70 California Appellate Reports 3d 355 (1977)>; also : being in violation of the rule against perpetuities remote contingent estate>
2 : acting, acted on, or controlled indirectly or from a distance
3 a : not proximate or acting directly b : not arising from the effect of that which is proximate
4 : small in degree remote possibility of paternity> —re·mote·ly adverb —re·mote·ness noun