CASUS BELLI • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Casus belli

... king of Naples having undertaken to convert the Sicilian sulphur trade into a monopoly, England, which consumes an immense quantity of this sulphur, warned the king of Naples that, if the monopoly were maintained, it would be considered a casus belli. While the two governments were exchanging diplomatic notes, fifteen patents were taken out in England for the extraction of sulphuric acid from the limestones, iron pyrites, and other mineral substances in which England abounds. But the affair being arranged with the king of ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... in warfare, may sometimes appear to free a people from the rule of a tyrant, but unless love be at the root of the "casus belli," other and more direful disasters will follow in the ...

— Sex=The Unknown Quantity - The Spiritual Function of Sex • Ali Nomad