Lat. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement
2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, or mode of acquiring property; hence a title; one's title to property. Thus, "Titulus est justa causa possidcndi id quod nostrum est;" title is the
More... Lat. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement
2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, or mode of acquiring property; hence a title; one's title to property. Thus, "Titulus est justa causa possidcndi id quod nostrum est;" title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Coke, 153. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 242, 283.
3. A condition; a consideration; motive for performing a juristic act Used of contracts, and found in this sense in the Scotch law also. Bell.
4. In old English law. A cause; a suit or action pending. Causa testamentaria, a testamentary cause. Causa matrimonialis, a matrimonial cause. Bract fol. 61.
5. In old European law. Any movable thing or article of property.
6. Used with the force of a preposition, it means by virtue of, on account of. Also with reference to, in contemplation of. Causa mortis, iu anticipation of death.
—Causa eansans. The immediate cause; the last link in the chain of causation.—Causa data et non seouta. In the civil law. Consideration given and not followed, that is, by the event upon which it was given. The name of an action by which a thing given in the view of a certain event was reclaimed if that event did not take place. Dig. 12, 4; Cod. 4, 6. —Causa hospitandi. For the purpose of being entertained as a guest. 4 Maule & S. 310. —Causa jaetitationis maritagii. A form of action* which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might ensue. 3 Bl. Comm. 93.—Causa matrimonii prselocuti. A writ lying where a woman has given lands to a man in fee-simple with the intention that he shall marry her, and he refuses so to do within a reasonable time, upon suitable request. Cowell. Now obsolete. 3 Bl. Comm. 183, note. —Causa mortis. In contemplation of approaching death. In view of death. Commonly occurring in the phrase donatio causa mortis, (q. v.)—Causa patet. The reason is open, obvious, plain, clear, or manifest. A common expression in old writers. Perk. c. 1, §§ 11, 14, 97.—Causa proxima. The immediate, nearest, or latest cause.—Causa rei. In the civil law. The accessions, appurtenances, or fruits of a thing; comprehending all that the claimant of a principal thing can demand from a defendant in addition thereto,, and especially what he would have had, if the thing had not been withheld from him. Inst. 4, 17, 3; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 166.—Causa remota. A remote or mediate cause; a cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes.—Causa scientist patet. The reason of the knowledge is evident A technical phrase in Scotch practice, nsed in depositions of witnesses.—Causa sine qua non. A necessary or inevitable cause; a cause without which the effect in question could not have happened. Hayes v. Railroad Co., Ill U. S. 228, 4 Sup. Ct. 369, 28 L. Ed. 410.—Causa turpi. A base (immoral or illegal) cause or consideration.
Causa causae est oausa eausati. The cause of a cause is the cause of the thing caused. 12 Mod. 639. The cause of the cause is to be considered as the cause of the effect also.
Causa eausantis, oausa est eausati.
The cause of the thing causing is the cause of the effect 4 Camp. 284; Marble v. City of Worcester, 4 Gray (Mass.) 398.
Causa eeelesise publicis sequiparatur et lumma est ratio quae pro religions faoit. The cause of the church is equal to public cause; and paramount is the reason which makes for religion. Co. Litt 341.
Causa et origo est materia negotii.
The cause and origin is the substance of the thing; the cause and origin of a thing are a material part of it The law regards the original act 1 Coke, 99.
Causa proxima, non remota, speotatur.
The immediate, not the remote, cause, la looked at, or considered. 12 East, 648; 3 Kent Comm. 302; Story. Bailm. f 515; Baa Max. reg. 1.
Causa vaga et ineerta non est oausa rationabilis. 5 Coke, 57. A vague and uncertain cause is not a reasonable cause.
Causae dotis, vitse, libortatis, flsci snnt inter favorabilia in lege. Causes of dower, life, liberty, revenue, are among the things favored in law. Co. Litt 841.
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