Crossword clues for casus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casus \Ca"sus\, n. [L.] 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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Usage examples of "casus".
Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.
Ad hos omnes casus provisa erant praesidia cohortium duarum et viginti, quae ex ipsa provincia ab Lucio Caesare legato ad omnes partes opponebantur.
Itaque productis copiis ante oppidum considunt et proximam fossam cratibus integunt atque aggere explent seque ad eruptionem atque omnes casus comparant.
While these may not constitute casus belli, they certainly help us to build the case that Iraq is an outlaw state whose actions regularly violate international law and endanger its neighbors and other countries outside the region.
This is one of the great problems with those who want to use a new inspection regime to justify war on Iraq--in the expectation that Iraq would block the inspectors and so furnish Washington with a legitimate casus belli.
And the Schenckius,--the folio filled with casus rariores, which had strayed in among the rubbish of the bookstall on the boulevard,--and the noble old Vesalius with its grand frontispiece not unworthy of Titian, and the fine old Ambroise Pare, long waited for even in Paris and long ago, and the colossal Spigelius with his eviscerated beauties, and Dutch Bidloo with its miracles of fine engraving and bad dissection, and Italian Mascagni, the despair of all would-be imitators, and pre-Adamite John de Ketam, and antediluvian Berengarius Carpensis,--but why multiply names, every one of which brings back the accession of a book which was an event almost like the birth of an infant?
Bush, how many new Pontiacks may even now be raising forces, planning assaults, perhaps in the Market for a couple of English Surveyors to style a casus belli and publickly torture before putting to death, yaagghh!
Cortando en seco los adioses, que siempre duelen, me tiré del carro como pude y gané el zaguán para evitar un casus belli con el extenuado.
Washington recognized the danger immediately: Israel would likely see any movement of Iraqi troops into Syria as a casus belli.
As with WMD, he seems to recognize that a terrorist attack on the United States under current circumstances would only give Washington a casus belli to employ military force to remove his regime.
Saddam is probably being careful not to get involved in a new terrorist operation for fear of providing the United States with just such a casus belli.
Israel because this could furnish the casus belli that he knows we would be looking for.
Israel would likely see any movement of Iraqi troops into Syria as a casus belli.
Iraq would block the inspectors and so furnish Washington with a legitimate casus belli.
The Forest life ever presenting Mystery to them, too much going on, night and day, behind ev'ry Trunk, beneath ev'ry Bush, how many new Pontiacks may even now be raising forces, planning assaults, perhaps in the Market for a couple of English Surveyors to style a casus belli and publickly torture before putting to death, yaagghh!