Causa
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
That which operates to produce an effect; that on account of which a thing is done; that which supplies a motive, or constitutes a reason.
Causa causans
The originating, efficient cause; the immediate cause.
Causa causae causantis
The cause of the cause operating; i. e., the near, not the direct, cause, 2 See Cause, 1. Causa mortis. See Donatio, Mortis, etc. Causa proxima, non remota, speetatur. The near cause, not the removed, ia considered.
See at length Cause, 1, Proximate, etc.
Causa sine qua non
A cause without which a thing cannot be or exist: as, a cause without which an injury could not have occurred.' Causa turpis. An unlawful motive or purpose: an immoral or illegal consideration.
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
Out of an illegal consideration an action cannot arise: no court will aid a party who founds his claim for redress upon an illegal act.* See further Delictum, In pari, etc.