Causa Data Et Non Secuta

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.