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Consequence

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; connection of cause and effect; that.which follows from, or grows out of any act, cause or series of actions; an event or effect produced by some preceding influence, action, act or cause.

162 111. App. 113.

CONSEQUENTIAE NON EST CONSEquentia

A consequence ought not to be drawn from another consequence.

Bac. Aph. 16.