Causa

Lat.

In old English law. A title; a source, mode or ground of acquisition. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 273, § 263. Titulus est justa causa possidendi id qux>d nostrum est. Title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Co. 153, E 305.] Inter alias causas acquisitionis, magna, Celebris, et famosa est causa donationis; among other sources of acquisition, a great, distinguished and well known source or title is that of gift. Bract, fol. 11. Est etiam alia causa acquirendi rerum dominia, qucB dicitur causa successionis; there is also another source or mode of acquiring the ownership of things, which is called the source of succession, [title by succession.] Id. fol. 62 b. See Id. fol. 31 b, 40.