Lucrativa Causa
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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 cencur In the same person as regarded the same thing; that is to say, that, when the same thing was bequeathed to a person by two different testators, he could not have the thing (or its value) twice over. Brown.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Lat.
In Roman law. A consideration which is voluntary; that is to say, a gratuitous gift, or such like. It wag opposed to omerosa causa, which denoted a valuable consideration. It was aprinciple of the Roman law that two lucrative causes could not concur in the same person as regarded the same thing; that is tosay, that, when the same thing was bequeathed to a person by two different testators, he could not have the thing (or its value} twice over. Brown.