单词 | reasonable cause |
释义 | > as lemmasreasonable cause reasonable cause n. just or legitimate grounds (for following a particular course of action); esp. (Law) grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime, especially as justification for making a search, an arrest, etc.; cf. probable cause n. at probable adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 48 (MED) What tyme þat a brother is ded or a suster, that they come to þe dirige..but he haue a resonable cause to be excused. 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. O. viij v, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes Without reasonable and probable cause nothinge be chaunged in the accustomed and vsuall ceremonies. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ppp4v/1 That subsidium charitatiuum, which vppon reasonable cause he may require of his Clergie. 1676 City Law 28 in Practick Part of Law (rev. ed.) If a Freeman of the said City..be constrained to pay toll or custom, or that his Goods be arrested or carryed away wrongfully, without reasonable cause, and not delivered again by the Governour of the Town. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 425 Upon reasonable cause to be allowed by a justice of the peace. 1879 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 97 646 If there was a reasonable cause of seizure, there was a probable cause. 1959 Times 26 Mar. 18/1 The subsection which would give a constable power to arrest without warrant anyone he..suspected, with reasonable cause, of committing an offence under this section. 2002 Time 23 Sept. 53/3 The premise of the Fourth Amendment is that you don't question people, detain them—and you certainly don't take photos and enter them into a database—unless you have reasonable cause. < as lemmas |
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