Causam
Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1891)
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A summons to take up the cause. A process, in the civil law, which issued when one of the parties to a suit died before its determination, for the plaintiff against the defendant's heir, or for the plaintiff’s heir against the defendant, as the case might be; analogous to a modern bill of revivor. Citatioestdejurinaturali, A summons is by natural right. Cases in Banco Regis Wi, Ili. 4538.