Adequate Cause
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Sufficient cause for a particular purpose.
Pennsylvania & N. Y. Canal & R. Co. v. Mason, 109 Pa. 296, 58 Am. Rep. 722.
Such a cause as would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.
Boyett v. State, 2 Tex. App. 100.
It is to be determined by the particular circumstances of each particular case; Williams v. State, 7 id.
396.