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Definition of Probable cause
1. Noun. (law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure. "A magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house"
Definition of Probable cause
1. Noun. (American English) The standard by which a police officer may make an arrest or conduct a personal or property search. ¹
2. Noun. In accident investigations, the conclusions reached by the investigating body as to the factor or factors which caused the accident. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Probable Cause
Literary usage of Probable cause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Malicious prosecution <S=»I9—Facts insufficient to convict may afford probable
cause. Facts which are in law insufficient to authorize a conviction for a ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"found, establish probable cause or not.9 But if the matter of fact and matter of
law, of which the probable cause consists, are inti- or the infirmities or ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"suggestion of probable cause, it may not be improper to consider, how far the
existence of probable cause can be inquired into, or constitutes matter of ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Montagu Manning (1834)
"After this he cannot be said to have had reasonable or probable cause for ...
The question is, whether there was any reasonable or probable cause for ..."
5. Pacific Reporter by West Publishing Company (1886)
"What constitutes probable cause is a mixed 4u.— tion of fact and law. Johnson v.
... question of probable cause is one of law for the court, Parli v. ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"Want of probable cause.—probable cause is the apparent existence of such facts and
... Although there might otherwise be probable cause from suspicious ..."
7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"In Kansas, in an action for wrongful attachment the plaintiff may recover his
actual damages without averring malice or want of probable cause. ..."
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