Causare

Lat. [from causa, q. v.] In old English practice. To cause or produce. Causans, causing. Causata, caused. To complain of, to snow cause against, or object to. Causari poterunt et calumpniari multis modis; they may be objected to, and challenged in many ways. Bract, fol.

76 b.

Id. fol.

238. 334.

In old European law. To manage a cause, to litigate, (causam agere, litigare.) Spelman, voc. Causa. Si quis causam alterius agere aut causare proesumpserit; if any one shall presume to prosecute or manage the cause of another.

LL.

Longob. lib.

2. tit. 52. 1.

1, cited ibid. So actionare, (q. V.) to prosecute an action.