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  • CAUSE LIST
    In English practice. A printed roll of actions, to be tried in the order of their entry, with the names of the solicitors for each litigant Similar to the calendar of causes, or docket used in American courts.
  • CAUSE OF ACTION
    Matter for which an action may be brought. The ground on which an action may be sustained. The right to bring a suit. Cause of action is properly the ground on which an action can be maintained; as when we say that such a person has no cause of action. More...
  • CAUSES CELEBRES
    Celebrated cases. A work containing reports of the decisions of Interest and importance In French courts In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Secondarily a single trial or decision 1B often called a "cause ctlebre," when It is remarkable on account of the parties involved or the unusual, interesting, or sensational More...
  • CAUSIDICUS
    In the civil law. A pleader; one who argued a cause ore tenus.
  • CAUTELA
    Lat. Care; caution; vigilance ; prevision.
  • CAUTIO
    In tbe civil and French law. Security given for the performance of any thing; bail; a bond or undertaking by way of surety. Also the person who becomes a surety. In Scotch law. A pledge, bond, or other security for the performance of an obligation, or completion of the satisfaction More...
  • CAUTION
    In Scotch law, and in admiralty lawi Surety; security; bail; an undertaking by way of surety. 6. Mod. 162. See CAUTIO. —Caution juratory. In Scotch law. Security given by oath. That which a suspender swears is the best he can afford in order to obtain a suspension. Ersk. Pract 4, More...
  • CAUTIONARY
    In Scotch law. An instrument in which a person binds himself as surety for another.
  • CAUTIONE ADMITTENDA
    In English ecclesiastical law. A writ that lies against a bishop who holds an excommunicated person in prison for contempt notwithstanding he offers sufficient caution or security to obey the orders and commandment of the church for the future. Reg. Orig. 66; Cowell.
  • CAUTIONER
    In Scotch law. A surety; a bondsman. One who binds himself in a bond with the principal for greater security. He Is still a cautioner whether the bond be to pay a debt or whether he undertake to produce the person of the party for whom he is bound. Bell.
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