cause of action

1. 1.

   a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action

   Broaderclaim

   law

Questions about cause of action

What does cause of action mean?

cause of action means "a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action".

Is cause of action a common word?

cause of action is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.