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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lucrative, a. [L. lucrātīvus profitable, in jurid. L., gratuitous, received or transmitted gratuitously: late ME. (15th c.) and e.m.E. have lucrative adj. in non-legal uses.] (Only in legal use). Of a title: Gratuitous, granted as a free gift and not for ‘onerous’ consideration (cf. Onerous a.).Lucrative successor, an heir-apparent who has accepted as a free gift during his ancestor's lifetime any part of the estate to which he would have succeeded. By the Act 1621 c. 18 (Acts IV. 615–6), the ‘lucrative successor’ was liable for the grantor's prior debts: see Stair Inst. iii. vii. (and also Balfour Pract. 231, c. 33). c1575 Balfour Pract. 190.]
[All pactiounis, contractis [etc.] … maid be ony persoun, contenand na titill, neque onerosum, neque lucrativum, is simular, feinȝeit and null in the self 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix.
If rightly we reason the patronall right, their tittle being onerous and not lucratiue, they ought the Kirk a plane patrociny and protection of law a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 93.
All contracts … containeing no tytle onerous or lucrative ar null be way of exceptione 1681 Stair Inst. iii. vii. 2.
This passive title is not only extended to dispositions of lands bearing expressly a lucrative title, as ‘for love and favour’, &c.; but though the narrative thereof bears expressly a cause onerous, [etc.] Ib.; etc.
Accepting a tocher did not make a daughter liable as lucrative successor