Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CAUSA

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CAUSA. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement. 2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, or mode of acquiring property; hence a title; one's title to property. Thus, "TitiUus est justa causa possidendi id quod nostrum est;" title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Coke, 153. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 242, 283. 3. A condition; a consideration; motive for performing a juristic act. Used of con tracts, and found in this sense in the Scotch law also. Bell. 4. In old English, law. A cause; a suit or action pending. Causa testamentaria, a testamentary cause. Causa matrimonialis, a matrimonial cause. Bract, fol. 61. 5. In old European law. Any movable thing or article of property. 6. Used with the force of a preposition, it means by virtue of, on account of. Also with reference to, in contemplation of. Causa mortis, in anticipation of death. Causa causse est causa causati. The cause of a cause is the cause of the thing caused. 12 Mod. 639. The cause of the cause is to be considered as the cause of the effect also. CAUSA CAUSANS. The immediate cause; the last link in the chain of causa tion. Causa causantis, causa est oausatL The cause of the thing causing is the canst of the effect. 4 Camp. 284; 4 Gray, 398. CAUSA DATA ET NON SECUTA. In the civil law. Consideration given and not followed, that is, by the event upon which it was given. The name of an ac tion by which a thing given in the view of a certain event was reclaimed if that event did not take place. Dig. 12, 4; Cod. 4,6. Causa ecclesiee publiois eequiparatur; et summa est ratio qua? pro religione facit. The cause of the church is equal to public cause; and paramount is the reason which makes for religion. Co. Litt. 341. Causa et origo est materia negotii. The cause and origin is the substance of the thing; the cause and origin of a thing are a material part of it. The la w regards the orig inal act. 1 Coke, 99. CAUSA HOSPITANDI. For the pur pose of bei ng entertained as a guest. 4 Maule & S. 310.

CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ACT. The statute of 10 Geo. IV". c. 7, by which Ro man Catholics were restored, in general, to the full enjoyment of all civil rights, except chat of holding ecclesiastical offices, and cer tain high appointments in the state. 3 Steph. Comm. 109. CATONIANA REGULA. In Roman law. The rule which is commonly expressed in the maxim, Quod ab initio non valet traotu temporis non convalebit, meaning that what is at the beginning void by reason of some technical (or other) legal defect will not become valid merely by length of time. The rule applied to the institution of hceredes, the bequest of legacies, and such like. The rule is not without its application also in En glish law; e. g., a married woman's will (be ing void when made) is not made valid mere ly because she lives to become a widow. Brown. CATTLE. A term which includes the domestic animals generally; all the animals used by man for labor or food. Animals of the bovine genus. In a wider sense, all domestic animals used by man for labor or food, including sheep, (2 Sawy. 148,) and hogs, (21 Wall. 294.) CATTLE-GATE. In English law. A right to pasture cattle in the land of another. It is a distinct and several interest in the land, passing by lease and release. 13 East, 159; 5 Taunt. 811. CATTLE- GUARD. A device to prevent cattle from straying along a railroad-track at a highway-crossing. Century Diet. See 31 Kan. 337, 2 Pac. Rep. 800. CAUDA TERR.&I. A land's end, or the bottom of a ridge in arable land. Cowell. CAULCEIS. Highroads or ways pitched with flint or other stones. CAUPO. In the civil law. An innkeeper. Dig. 4, 9, 4, 5. CAUPONA. In the civil law. An inn or tavern. Inst. 4, 5, 3. CAUPONES. In the civil law. Inn keepers. Dig. 4, 9; Id. 47, 5; Story, Ag. §458. CAURSINES. Italian merchants who came into England in the reign of Henry III., where they established themselves as money lenders, but were soon expelled for their usury and extortion. Cowell; Blount. ,

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