Causa Rei
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil law. The accessions, appurtenances or fruits of a thing; comprehending all that the claimant of a principal thing can demand from a defendant in addition thereto, and especially what he would have had, if the thmg had not been withheld from him.
Inst. 4. 17. 3. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 155, § 153. Id. 310, § 289.