INTRODUCTION OF A CAUSE. - With the introduction of the cause (also called introductio litis), the way is opened to the constitution of the process, and the suit becomes pending.
The process is in fact said to be introduced by the judicial petition of the plaintiff presented to the judge and communicated to the opposing party with the summons for the joinder of issue. Two conditions must therefore be fulfilled for the process to be said to be constituted: a) the request for the ministry of the judge, by which the right that one party claims against the other must be enforced, and this is done by the judicial petition contained in the libellus (v.); b) the summons (v.) of the other party, to whom the plaintiff's claim is communicated, so that he may either yield, thus ending the process, or defend himself against this claim. All this prepares the way for the joinder of issue, through which the object of the controversy, on which the judge must rule, is better determined.
The first two acts, the judicial petition and the summons, constitute the introduction of the cause, of which the CIC speaks in tit. VI, chaps. 1-2, cann. 1706-1725.
Bibliography5 worksF. Roberti, De recursu ob reiectionem libelli, in Apollinaris, 1 (1928), pp. 73-4; id., De reiectione libelli in procesu criminali, ibid., p
BIBL.: F. Roberti, De recursu ob reiectionem libelli, in Apollinaris, 1 (1928), pp. 73-4; id., De reiectione libelli in procesu criminali, ibid., pp. 186-7; A. Vermeersch-I. Creusen, Ebitone iuris canonici, III, Rome-Malines 1936, p. 144 ff.; F. M. Cappello, Praxis processualis canonica, Turin 1940, pp. 17-19; Wernz-Vidal, VI, nn. 368-75, 734.
Palazzini, Pietro. “Introductio Causae.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 116. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/introductio-causae.
MLA
Palazzini, Pietro. “Introductio Causae.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 116. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/introductio-causae.
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author = {Palazzini, Pietro},
title = {Introductio Causae},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/introductio-causae}
}
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