As a lawyer, your goal is to convert the facts from your client's narrative into a legal claim that states a cause of action, or into a viable defense to plausible legal claims.
The alternative joinder that plaintiff puts forward two kinds of cause of action concerning contract and tort is extensively excluded, however, substantive law cannot provide basis for it.
The judge found that the plaintiff’s pleadings disclosed no cause of action.
The cause of action, claims, and the facts and reasons of disputes;
Even the cause of action is the property right guaranteed by the constitution.
Or how about the student whose claim that his professor was negligent in his method of handing back graded exams was recognized by a court of appeals as constituting a legitimate cause of action?
These rules must be followed by citizens, and violation of these rules may give rise to a cause of action in the courts.