A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
1 The word has a singular signification in a plural form, "honoris causa . "
2 Peter Berrier, his ostler, stood behind him, teterrima belli causa !
3 Nec Cicero, cum se tenebras offudisse iudicibus in causa Cluentii gloriatus est, nihil ipse vidit.
4 Bruder reads: "Malum praesens minus, quod causa est faturi alicujus mali."
5 The human mind is so formed that it always unconsciously applies the principle of the causa sufficiens.
6 Non causa pro causa , Fallacy of, 883.
7 He always evaded the question himself, saying that it was given him by a Western university causa honoris.
8 Forces are causes; and accordingly we may make full application in relation to them of the principle causa aequat effectum.
9 Victrix causa diis placuit.
10 Coquus teterrima belli causa !
11 The university which can claim him on its list of sons, whether in regular course or honoris causa , may be proud.
12 The next step is to declare that civilisation is the causa malorum and that what is named progress is really regress.
13 Glanvill's "justa debendi causa " (Lib.
14 Other causes have been announced by medical writers under the names of causa procatarctica, and causa proegumina, and causa sine quâ non.
15 He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle.
16 God is the cause of energy as the sun is the cause of colour: "prout sol dicitur causa manifestationis coloris."
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