Lat. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement. 2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, EL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)
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Lat. 1. A cause, reason, occasion, motive, or inducement. 2. In the civil law and in old English law. The word signified a source, ground, EL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)
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