Lucrative

Yielding gain or profit; profitable; bcaring 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 to the services rendered and in excess of the expenses incidental to the office. See State v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 405, 15 Am. Rep. 239; Dailey v. State, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 330; Crawford v. Dunbar, 52 Cal. 39; State v. De Gress, 53 Tex. 400.

— Lucrative suoeession. In Scotch law. A kind of passive title by which a person accepting from another, without any onerous cause, (or without paying value,) a disposition of any part of his heritage, to which the receiver would have succeeded as heir, is liable to all the grantor's debts contracted before the said disposition. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 102.

Refers to an office to which there is attached a compensation for services rendered.^

An ofiice to which there is attached a compensation for services rendered is lucrative. State v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 401. Offices are "lucrative'' to which pay, supposed to be an adequate compensation, is affixed for the performance of the duties. The offices of county recorder and county commissioner are lucrative, witliin the meaning of a constitutional provision that two lucrative offices shall not be held by the same person at the same time. Hence a county recorder, by accepting the office of county commissioner, vacates that of recorder. JDailey v. State ex rel. Huffer, 8 Black/. 329.