causa
- n a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- Noted with attention the quashing of a proposal before the Senate of Cambridge University to confer upon onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald a doctorate of laws, honoris causa.
- Clergymen are slipping; a century ago they made up 45% of the honoris causa list, after World War II, 5%.
- Doctor (honoris causa) of the University of Buenos Aires and author of the "20 truths" of Peronismo (social justice, old-age pensions, etc.