Caucus

See Election. CAUSA (Lat). A cause; a reason. A condition; a consideration. Used of contracts, and found in this sense in the Scotch law also. Bell, Diet. It cannot be considered that consideration was borrowed from equity as a modification of the Roman "causa." Prof. J. B. Ames in 3 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Amer. Leg. Hist. 279. Practically it covers somewhat wider ground than the modern "Consideration Executed," but it has no generic notion corresponding to it, at least none coextensive with the notion of contract; Poll. Contr. 74. A suit; an action pending. Used in this sense in the old English law. Property. Used thus in the civil law in the sense of res (a thing). Non porcellum, non agnellum nee alia causa (not a hog, not a lamb, nor other thing). Du Cange. By reason of. Causa proxima. The immediate cause. Causa remota. A cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes. Causa causans. The inducing or immecausantis causa est causati (the cause of the thing causing is the cause of the thing caused). Marble v. City of Worcester, 4 Gray (Mass.) 398; 4 Campb. 2S4. In law, however, only the direct cause is considered. See 9 Co. 50; 12 Mod. 639; Causa Proxima Non Remota Spectatur; Contracts. CAUSA JACTITATIONIS MARITAGII (Lat). A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might ensue. 3 Bla. Com. 93. See Jactitation of Marriage. CAUSA MATRIMONII PR/ELOCUTI (Lat). A writ lying where a woman has given lands to a man in fee-simple with the intention that he shall marry her, and he refuses so to do within a reasonable time, upon suitable request. Cowell. Now obsolete. 3 Bla. Com. 1S3, n.

See Bribery.