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Meanings of causa in English

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A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.

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        Usage of causa in English
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        The word has a singular signification in a plural form, "honoris causa."
        Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
        2
        Peter Berrier, his ostler, stood behind him, teterrima belli causa!
        La Vendée
        3
        Nec Cicero, cum se tenebras offudisse iudicibus in causa Cluentii gloriatus est, nihil ipse vidit.
        The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
        4
        Bruder reads: "Malum praesens minus, quod causa est faturi alicujus mali."
        Ethics — Part 4
        5
        The human mind is so formed that it always unconsciously applies the principle of the causa sufficiens.
        International Short Stories: French
        6
        Non causa pro causa, Fallacy of, 883.
        Deductive Logic
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        He always evaded the question himself, saying that it was given him by a Western university causa honoris.
        Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
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        Forces are causes; and accordingly we may make full application in relation to them of the principle causa aequat effectum.
        A History of Science — Volume 3
        9
        Victrix causa diis placuit.
        Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 / from Rome to the End
        10
        Coquus teterrima belli causa!
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
        11
        The university which can claim him on its list of sons, whether in regular course or honoris causa, may be proud.
        Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
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        The next step is to declare that civilisation is the causa malorum and that what is named progress is really regress.
        The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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        Glanvill's "justa debendi causa" (Lib.
        The Common Law
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        Other causes have been announced by medical writers under the names of causa procatarctica, and causa proegumina, and causa sine quâ non.
        Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
        15
        He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
        16
        God is the cause of energy as the sun is the cause of colour: "prout sol dicitur causa manifestationis coloris."
        Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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