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-A particularly elegant {{tag|Latin}} phrase meaning the effective cause: literally, the “cause without which there would be nothing”. Where there are several contributing factors to some kind of perfidy, lawyers will often be obliged to identify which ones are suitable subjects for  legal warfare. The ''causa sine qua non'' is just such a subject.
+An elegant {{tag|Latin}} phrase meaning the effective cause of a given event: literally, the “cause without which there would be nothing”.
+Where there are several contributing factors to some kind of perfidy, [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] will often be obliged to identify which ones are suitable subjects for  legal warfare. The ''causa sine qua non'' is just such a subject.
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-Is the school assembly the ''[[causa sine qua non]]'' of his absence from that dreary 9 a.m. meeting? If it pleases your honour, [[I]] humbly submit it is not.
+[[Amwell J]] peers over his glasses down at counsel before him. Now, is the school assembly the ''[[causa sine qua non]]'' of his absence from that dreary 9 a.m. meeting?
+If it pleases your honour, [[I]] humbly submit it is not.
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