Short Cause
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English chancery practice, and in some of the United States, a cause the trial of which will take but a short time, and which may accordingly be put on a special calendar for speedy trial.
See 8 Misc. Rep. (N. Y.) 94; 247 111. 112.