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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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LUCRATIVE, adj. Sc. Law usage in phrs. lucrative successor, -ion, -title, (the act of) an heir who accepts part of an estate as a gift before the death of his ancestor, thereby involving himself in liability for the ancestor's prior debts (Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 610, 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 53). Now practically obs. Cf. Passive, adj.Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. iii. 102:
Lucrative Succession post contractum debitum, is a passive Title. . . . This passive Title doth make the lucrative Successor liable in the same Manner, as if he was entred Heir, and no further.