Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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causa sine qua non
A necessary cause; the cause without which the thing cannot be or the event could not have occurred. See but-for cause under CAUSE.2. Civil law. A consideration or inducement."The revolution of the ancient law of Contract was consummated when the Praetor of some one year announced in his Edict that he would grant equitable actions upon Pacts which had never been matured at all into Contracts, provided only that the Pacts in question
causa sine qua non.
See CAUsA (1).