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Casus

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Ca´sus
n.1.An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
Casus belli
an event or combination of events which is a cause war, or may be alleged as a justification of war.
Casus fortuitus
an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act.
Casus omissus
a case not provided for by the statute.


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Such might have been the end of it had the CASUS BELLI been other than it was; but Teeka was flattered at the attention that was being drawn to her and by the fact that these two young bulls were contemplating battle on her account.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.
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I couldn't make a casus belli of it just then, because my Chief had taken all the troops to hammer a gang of slave kings up north.
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