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CAUSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causa mean? 

CAUSA (noun)
  The noun CAUSA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CAUSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAUSA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

case; causa; cause; lawsuit; suit

Context example:

the family brought suit against the landlord

Hypernyms ("causa" is a kind of...):

legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "causa"):

civil suit (a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant)

class-action suit; class action (a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group)

countersuit (a suit brought against someone who has sued you)

criminal suit (a lawsuit alleging violations of criminal law by the defendant)

moot (a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise)

bastardy proceeding; paternity suit (a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined))


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense." (English proverb)

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." (Native American proverb, Sioux)

"You can't get there from here." (American proverb)

"May problems with neighbors last only as long as snow in March." (Corsican proverb)



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