Lucrative Succession
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. The passive title of praeceptio haereditatis, by which, if an heir apparent receive gratuitously a part, however small, of the heritage which* would come to him as heir, he is liable for all grantor's precontracted debts. Ersk. Inst. 3. 8. 87-89; Stair, Inst. 3. 7. LUCRI CAUSA (Lat. for the sake of gain).
In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent of deriving personal gain with which property is taken in cases of larceny, robbery, and other crimes against Tex. 521), though the contrary has been held (I Mc All. [U. S.] 196).
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Scotch law. A kind of passivetitle 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 con-
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Scotch, the conveyance to the heir, without valuable consideration, of a part of his inheritance, whereupon he is liable for all previous debts of the grantor.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A term of Scotch law for a transfer of property from one person to another, being such as the grantee would in due time inherit from the grantor: this, if made without paying value, renders the grantee liable for the grantor's, debts, previously contracted.