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Lucri Causa

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase mcaning "fur 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.