causa

• [Greek: Battologein] autem illis dicitur qui voces easdem frequenter iterant sine causa, vel loquacitatis, vel naturae, vel consuetudinis vitio. —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 5
• Have the kindness when you have solved the problem to send the result to me by the Hagenauer servant maid Cuperem scire, de qua causa, a quam plurimis adolescentibus ottium usque adeo aestimetur, ut ipsi se nec verbis, nec verberibus ab hoc sinant abduci The Archiepiscopal concertmaster, aged 13, writes thus to a girl friend 153. —  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
• Western to confer honorary degree in Hong Kong to Managing Director of Cheung Kong A Hong Kong business leader who has been a key driving force in expanding the Cheung Kong Group into one of the biggest multinational conglomerates in the world will receive an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LL. D.), as The University of Western Ontario celebrates its annual Hong Kong Convocation on May 24.
• 194. “Asserere liberati causa,” was to assert the freedom of a person, with a determination to maintain it at law. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
• Moreover, their moral rights, e.g. defence against the inquisitive, &c St. Alfonso, I consider, would take the same view of the "justa causa" as the Anglican divines; he speaks of it as "quicunque finis honestus_, ad servanda bona spiritui vel corpori utilia;" which is very much the view which they take of it, judging by the instances which they give In all cases, however, and as contemplated by all authors, Clement of Alexandria, or Milton, or St. Alfonso, such a causa is, in fact, extreme, rare, great, or at least special. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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