G'day Q,

"Portable soup" sounds suspiciously like something still disguised as Army rations in the late 1950s! (Although the description is basically the earliest form of condensed soup ... ?)

Anyway, if I can decipher my own scrawled notes (from Colin Fong's 'phone call) Ca. Sa. is the abbreviated form of capias ad satisfaciendum - meaning "you may seize and take hold of for the purpose of making satisfaction" ... a writ for the arrest of the defendant, in civil law, when judgement has been recovered for a sum of money, but not satisfied.

BTW: You seem to be having a problem with the diametrically opped taxonomic views of "Splitters" and "Lumpers" ... with yourself of the former persuasion.

Regards,

Bob Bolton