Lucrative Office

One for which “pay, supposed to be an adequate compensation, is fixed to the performance of” its “duties.” Dailey v. State, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 329, where, under the Indiana constitution forbidding the holding of more than one lucrative oflice at one time, the offices of county commissioners and county recorder were held such. So also were prison director; Howard v. Shoemaker, 35 Ind. Ill; mayor of a city; colonel of volunteers and reporter of the supreme court; Kerr v. Jones, 19 Ind. 351; otherwise as to the office of councilman in a city; State v. Kirk, 44 Ind. 405, 15 Am. Rep. 239. LUCRI CAUSA (7.,at. for the sake of gain). A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny. Under modern decisions this ingredient is generally considered immaterial. In many English cases there is shown a tendency to ro.sort to sophistical reasoning to avoid db rectly overruling the doctrine; 1 Den. C. C. 180, 193; Russ. & R. 307. In this country these cases have not been considered as authority; State v. Hawkins, 8 Port. (Ala.) 461, 33 Am. Dec. 294. But the question has not been much discussed and the rule is generally con.sidered well settled that it is sufficient if the taking be fraudulent and with the intent wholly to deprive the owner of his property. See Labcent.

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.

Defined under Lucrative in Black's Law Dictionary.