Meanings of higher causes in English

Generally the height is about five to six feet, any higher causes too much compaction.

In cases under £5 the court received no fee, but in higher causes a small sum was paid.

The greater, and many of the smaller channels, by which that chain is drained, owe their origin to higher causes.

For this reason, even in things corporeal, the preservation and continuation of things is ascribed to the higher causes: thus the Philosopher says (Metaph.

4: The absolute possible is not so called in reference either to higher causes, or to inferior causes, but in reference to itself.