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LUCRATUS

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In Scotch law. A gainer. … [Read more...]

LUCRE

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Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. Webster. … [Read more...]

LUCRI CAUSA

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Lat. In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning "for the sake of lucre" or gain. State v. Ryan, 12 Nev. 403, 28 Am. Rep. 802; State v. Slingerland, 19 Nev. 135, 7 Pac. 280. … [Read more...]

LUCRUM CESSANS

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Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss. Lucrum, facere ex pupilli tutela tutor non debet. A guardian ought not to make money out of the guardianship of his ward. Manning v. Manning's Ex'rs, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 527, 535. … [Read more...]

LOYALTY

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Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one's prince or sovereign or to the existing government. Lubricum linquae non facile trahendum est in poenam. Cro. Car. 117. A slip of the tongue ought not lightly to be subjected to punishment. … [Read more...]

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