Reason
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduco inferences from facts or from propositions.
Webster.
Also an inducement, motive or ground for action, as in the phrase "reasons for an appeal."
See Nelson v. Clongland, 15 Wis. 393; Miller v. Miller, 8 Johns. (N. Y.) 77.