causa cognita

causa cognita (kaw-z[schwa] kog-ni-t[schwa]). [Latin] Hist. After investigation; the cause (or facts) having been ascertained. Cf. POST CAUSAM COGNITAM .

“Formerly, inhibitions were not granted except causa cognita (although a different rule now prevails), because they imposed a restraint on the full exercise of the rights of property; and in our own time decrees of divorce or judicial separation are not granted, except on inquiry into the facts, and cause shown warranting such orders.” John Trayner, Trayner’s Latin Maxims 71–72 (4th ed. 1894).

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