KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

OATONIANA REGULA

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OAUSA CAUSANTIS

or mode of acquiring property; hence a title; one's title to property. Thus, "Titulus est justa causa possidendi id quod nostrum est;" title is the lawful ground of possessing that which is ours. 8 Coke, 153. See Mack eld. 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 causans. The immediate cause ; the last link in the chain of causation.—Causa data et non secuta. In the civil law. Con sideration given and not followed, that is, by the event upon which it was given. The name of an action 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 hospitandi. For the purpose of be ing entertained as a guest. 4 Maule & S. 310. —Causa jactitationis maritagii. A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common rep utation of their marriage might ensue. 3 Bl. Conun. 93.—Causa matrimonii praelocuti. A writ lying where a woman has given lands to a man in fee-simple with the intention that he shall marry her, and he refuses so to do within a reasonable time, upon suitable request. Cow ell. Now obsolete. 3 Bl. Comm. 183, note. —Causa mortis. In contemplation of ap proaching death. In view of death. Commonly occurring in the phrase donatio causa mortis, (q. v.) —Causa patet. The reason is open, ob vious, plain, clear, or manifest. A common ex pression in old writers. Perk. c. 1, §§ 11, 14, 97.—Causa proxima. The immediate, nearest, or latest cause.—Causa red. In the civil law. The accessions, appurtenances, or fruits of a thing; comprehending all that the claimant of a principal thing can demand from a defendant in addition thereto, and especially what he would have had, if the thing had not been with held from him. Inst. 4, 17, 3; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 166.—Causa remota. A remote or me diate cause; a cause operating indirectly by the intervention of other causes.—Causa scientise patet. The reason of the knowledge is evident A technical phrase in Scotch practice, used in depositions of witnesses.—Causa sine qua non. A necessary or inevitable cause; a cause without which the effect in question could not have happened. Hayes v. Railroad Co., Ill U. S. 228, 4 Sup. Ct 369, 28 L. Ed. 410.—Causa turpis. A base (immoral or illegal) cause or consideration. 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 causae est causa causati.

CATONIANA REGULA. In Roman law. The rule which is commonly expressed in the maxim, Quod ab initio non valet tractu temporis non convalebit, meaning that what is at the beginning void by reason of some technical (or othet) legal defect will not be come 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. 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 and hogs. Ma thews v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 553, 47 S. W. 647; State v. Brookhouse, 10 Wash. 87, 38 Pac. 862; State v. Credle, 91 N. C. 640; State v. Groves, 119 N. C. 822, 25 S. E. 819; First Nat Bank v. Home Sav. Bank, 21 Wall. 299, 22 L. Ed. 560; U. S. v. Mattock, 26 Fed. Cas. 1208. —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 cat tle from straying along a railroad-track at a highway-crossing. Heskett v. Railway Co., 61 Iowa, 467, 16 N. W. 525; Railway Co. v. Man son, 31 Kan. 337, 2 Pac. 800. CATTLE. CAUDA TERRJB. A land's end, or the bottom of a ridge in arable land. Cowell. CAUIiCEES. Highroads or ways pitched with flint or other stones. CAUPO. In the civil law. An innkeeper. Dig. 4, 9, 4, 5. CAUPONES. In the civil law. Innkeep ers. Dig. 4, 9; Id. 47, 5; Story, Ag. § 458. 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. CAUCUS. A meeting of the legal voters of any political party assembled for the pur pose of choosing delegates or for the nomina tion of candidates for office. Pub. St. N. H. 1901, p. 140, c. 78, § 1; Rev. Laws Mass. 1902, p. 104, c. 11, § 1. CAUSA. Lat 1. A cause, reason, occa sion, motive, or inducement. 2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, BL.LAW-DICT.(2D ED.)—12 CAURSINES. CAUFONA. In the civil law. An inn or tavern. Inst. 4, 5, 3.

Causa causantis, causa est causati. The cause of the thing causing is the cause