Causa

I. Cause; occasion; reason; a suit. Causa causans or remota: the original or remote cause. Causa causata or prozima: the immediate or next cause. Causa mortis, adulterii, impotentisB: by reason of death, adultery, impotence. Causa proxima, non remota, spectatur: the immediate cause is considered, not the remote. Causa et origo est materia negotii: the cause and origin of a thing are material parts of it. Causa matrimonii prselocuti: an old writ of entry which lay for a woman who had given a man lands in fee with intent that he should marry her, and he refused. Causa jactitationis maritagii: in ecclesiastical law, a suit of jactitation of marriage, to enjoin silence on one claiming to be married to the libellant. A writ that lay against the mayor of a town who had refused to deliver seisin to the grantee of the King.