Eng. law. In order to give jurisdiction to a court, a cause of action over which the court has jurisdiction is alleged, and also, (ac etiam) another cause of action over which, without being joined with the first, the court would have no jurisdiction; for example, to the usual complaint of breaking the plaintiff’s close, over which the court has jurisdiction, a clause is added containing the real cause of action.
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