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 […]