Causa

I. A cause; an occasion; a reason; by reason of; on account of; in contemplation of. Causa adulterii: by reason of adultery. Cansa consaiis, or remota: the original or remote cause. Causa causata, or proxima: the immediate or next cause. Causa causae: the cause of a cause; — est cansa causati: the cause of a cause is the cause of the thing caused. Cansa consangninitatis: by reason of consanguinity. Causa et orig^o est materia negotil: the cause and origin of a thing are material parts of it Cansa frigiditatis: by reason of frigidity. Causa inipotentia;: by reason of impotence. Cansa mortis: in contemplation of death. Cansa patet: the reason is plain; — ex prajmissis: the reason is plain from the premises. Cansa prascontractus: by reason of precontract Cansa proxima, non remota, spectatnr: the immediate cause is considered, not the remote. Causa saivitse: by i-eason of cruelty. Cansa sine qua non: a cause without which a thing cannot exist Cansa tnrpis: an unlawful motive or purpose; an illegal or immoral consideration.

In old English law

A cause; an occasion; a condition; a consideration; a title; a source or mode of acquisition; a suit pending; by reason of. Causa Iiospitaiidi: for the purpose of being entertained as a guest Cansa jactitationis matrimonii: a suit of jactitation of marriage, to enjoin silence upon a person claiming to be married to the libellant Causa matrlmonialis: a matrimonial cause. Cansa matrimonii prselocnti: by reason of a marriage before treated of; a writ of entry that lay for a woman who had given a man lands in fee with intent that he should marry her, where he refused. Cansa testamentaria: a testamentary cause. In Scots law. Cansa scientia; patet: the reason of the knowledge is evident — a technical phrase in depositions. In the civil law. Cansa data et non secuta: consideration given and not followed, — that is, by the event upon which it was given; an action by which a thing given in vie%v of a certain eveiit was reclaimed if the event did not take placa Cansa rei: the accessions, appurtenances or fruits of a thing, — all those things which the claimant would have had if the principal thing had not been withheld from him.