Causa causans
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
Definitions from Case Law
From 55 U.S. 468 - Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. Derby · 1852Most cited · 253 citing opinions
The intrusting such a powerful and dangerous engine as a locomotive, to one who will not submit to control, and render implicit obedience to orders, is itself an act of negligence, the ' causa causans ' of the mischief; while the proximate cause, or the ipsa negligentia which produces it, may truly be said, in most cases, to be the disobedience of orders by the servant so intrusted.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The immediate cause; the last link in the chain of causation. Rapalje & L.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The immediate cause; the last link in the chain of causation, Causa causantis, causa est causati. The cause of the thing causing is the cause of the effect. 4 Camp. 284; 4 Gray, 398,