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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.