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Causa Hospitandi

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

For the purpose of being entertained as a guest.

4 Maule & S. 310.

CAUSA JACTITATIONIS MARITAGII (Lat.) A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might ensue.

3 Bl. Comm. 93.

CAUSA MATRIMONII PRAELOCUTI (Lat.) A writ lying where a > woman has given lands to a man in fee simple, with the intention that he shall marry her, and he refuses so to do within a reasonable time, upon suitable request.

Cowell.

Now obsolete.

3 Bl. Comm. 183, note.