Trials in private causes are to be decided in the same manner as lesser offences against the state.

But the Queen was timid by nature, and the successive Ministers she had, had private causes for their irresolution.

The civil court was also assembled for the decision of private causes, in which it was engaged during a week.

His harangues to the people, and his speeches on public and private causes, which have been preserved, form a collection of sixty-one orations.