proximate

adjective | \ ˈpräk-sə-mət \ | prox·i·mate

1. : next immediately preceding or following (as in a chain of causation, events, or effects) : being or leading to a particular especially foreseeable result without intervention — see also proximate cause at cause 1

2. : very or relatively close or near would be sufficiently proximate to the commencement of the defendant's trial —Johnson v. New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719 (1966)