Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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last-proximate-act test

Criminal law. A common-law test for the crime of attempt, based on whether the defendant does the final act necessary to commit an offense (such as pulling the trigger of a gun, not merely aiming it). ( This test has been rejected by most courts as too lenient. See ATTEMPT (2).