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Definition of Causa
1. Noun. A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. "The family brought suit against the landlord"
Specialized synonyms: Civil Suit, Class Action, Class-action Suit, Countersuit, Criminal Suit, Moot, Bastardy Proceeding, Paternity Suit
Generic synonyms: Legal Proceeding, Proceeding, Proceedings
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Sue
Definition of Causa
1. cause [n CAUSAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causa
Literary usage of Causa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... sed ù Contentione non e causa nustra etiam nomine Sanctitatis ... ad se in
causa nostra : Et si quas ... in bac causa contra nos, aut sub- Deinde valde ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(1) Gifts causa mortis.—Besides these formal legacies, contained in a man's will
... 6. m There is a very complete donatio martin causa in the Odyssey, b. ..."
3. European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its by Frances Gardiner Davenport, Charles Oscar Paullin (1917)
"1526 causa en posesión o propriedad, saber, por los letrados juristas de cada
... los quales letrados procederán en la dicha causa, syn determinación o ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Gifts causa Mortis. — Gifts causa mortis have been a * 444 subject of very frequent
and extensive discussion in the held in trust far him after & fieri ..."
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