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  • LOYALTY
    Adherence to law. Faithfulness to one's prince or sovereign or to the existing government Lubricum linguae non facile trahen-dum est in pcenant. Cro. Car. 117. A slip of the tongue ought not lightly to be subjected to punishment
  • LUCID INTERVALS
    In medical jurisprudence. Intervals occurring in the mental life of an insane person during which he is completely restored to the use of his reason, or so far restored that he has suffl* dent intelligence, judgment and will to enter Into -contractual relations, or perform other legal acts, without disqualification More...
  • LUCRA NUPTIALIA
    Lat In Roman law. A term Including everything which a husband or wife, as such, acquires from the estate of the other, either before the marriage, or on agreeing to it or during its continuance, or after its dissolution, and whether the acquisition is by pure gift of by virtue More...
  • LUCRATIVA CAUSA
    Lat In Roman law. A consideration which is voluntary; that is to say, a gratuitous gift, or such like. It was opposed to onerosa causa, which denoted a valuable consideration. It was a principle of the Roman law that two lucrative causes could not concur in the same person as More...
  • LUCRATIVA USUCAPIO
    Lat. This species of usucapio was permitted in Roman law only in the case of persons taking possession of property upon the decease of its late owner, and In exclusion or deforcement of the heir, whence it was called "usucapio pro hcerede." The adjective "lucrotiva" denoted that property was acquired More...
  • LUCRATIVE
    Yielding gain or profit; profitable; bearing or yielding a revenue or salary. # -Lucrative bailment. See BAILMENT.-Lucrative office. One which yields a revenue (in the form of fees or otherwise) or a fixed salary to the incumbent; according to some authorities, one which yields a compensation supposed to be adequate More...
  • LUCRATUS
    In Scotch law. A gainer.
  • LUCRE
    Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. Webster.
  • LUCRI CAUSA
    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.
  • LUCRUM CESSANS
    Lat In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss. . Lucrum facere ex pupilli tntela 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. X.) 527, 535.
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