0 a good reason to believe that a crime was probably committed, and that a particular person was probably responsible, used as a legal standard for arresting someone or searching a place :
To get a warrant to search someone's home, you need to go to a magistrate and say we have probable cause to believe that there is evidence of a crime in that home.
Sometimes the FBI will surveil somebody while they attempt to gain probable cause to take a person into custody.
According to the probable cause affidavit, when the woman got home, she found her angry husband throwing belongings around the home.
More specifically, the probable cause of the accident is stated to be pilot error due to a combination of 11 stated factors.
I understand that a subsequent investigation identified the probable cause, and action designed to avoid a recurrence has been taken.
The most probable cause of the disease in cattle is the scrapie-contaminated sheepmeat with which they are fed.
Each known or probable cause of death was described.
The admission of spectral evidence at the indictments served the principle of presumptive evidence similar to a grand jury's inquiry into probable cause.
