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Lucrum Cessans

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A cessation of gain. Opposed to damnum emergens, 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.

1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 527, 535.