Causa Data Et Non Secuta
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the civil law. Consideration given and not followed, that is, by the event upon which it was given. The name of an action by which a thing given in the view of a certain event was reclaimed if that event did not take place. Dig. 12. 4; Code, 4. 6. CAUSA ECCLESIAE PUBLICIS AEQUIparatur; et summa est ratio quae pro religione facit. The cause of the church is equal to public cause; and paramount is the reason which makes for religion. Co. Litt. 341. CAUSA ET ORIGO EST MATERIA NEgotii. Cause and origin is the material of business. 1 Coke, 99; Wingate, Max. 41, max. 21.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Consideration given and not followed. Causa ecclesiae publicis aequiparatur; et summa est ratio quae pro religione facit. The cause of the church is equal to that of the public, and most important of all is the reason which makes for religion.