KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LUSHBOROW

LUCRATIVE

where several distinct parcels of real estate, or several articles of personal property, are sold together for a "lump" or single gross sum. Anniston Pipeworks v. Williams, 106 Ala. 324, 18 South. I l l , 54Am. St. Rep. 51. Lunacy is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided or erroneously governed by it; or it is the im pairment of anyone or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with or inducing a defect in the comparing faculty. Owings' Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 386,17 Am. Dec. 311. See INSANITY. —Inquisition (or inquest) of lunacy. A quasi-judicial examination into the sanity or in sanity of a given person, ordered by a court having jurisdiction, on a proper application and sufficient preliminary showing of facts, held by the sheriff (or marshal, or a magistrate, or the court itself, according to the local practice) with the assistance of a special jury, usually of six men, who are to hear evidence and render a ver dict in accordance with the facts. This is the usual foundation for an order appointing a guardian or conservator for a person adjudged to be insane, or for committing him to an insane asylum See Hughes v. Jones, 116 N. Y. 67, 22 N. E. 446, 5 L. R. A. 637, 15 Am. St. Rep. 386; Hadaway v. Smith, 71 Md. 319, 18 Atl. 589; Mills' Ann. St. Colo. § 2935.— Lunacy, commission of. A commission issuing from a court of competent jurisdiction, authorizing an inquiry to be made into the mental condition of a person who is alleged to be a lunatic. LUNACY. LUNATIC. A person of deranged orun sound mind; a person whose mental faculties are in the condition called "lunacy," (q. v.) Lunaticus, qui gaudet in lucidis in tervallis. He is a lunatic who enjoys lucid intervals. 1 Story, Cont. § 73. In old Englisff law. A sil ver penny, socalled because it was to be coin ed only at t London, (a Londres,) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell. LUNDRESS. LUNAR. Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon. —Lunar month. See MONTH.

and in excess of the expenses incidental to the office. SeeState 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 succession. 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 con tracted before the said disposition. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 102. LUCRATUS. In Scotch law. A gainer. LUCRE. Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. Webster. Lat. In criminal law. A term descriptive of the intent with which property is taken in cases of larceny, the phrase meaning "for the sake of lucre" or gain. State v. Ryan, 12 Nev. 403, 28 Am. Rep. 802; State v. Slingerland, 19 Nev. 135, 7 Pac. 280. LUCRUM CESSANS. Lat. In Scotch law. A ceasing gain, as distinguished from damnum datum, an actual loss. Lucrum, facere ex pupilli tutela tutor non debet. A guardian ought not to make money out of the guardianship of his ward. Manning v. Manning's Ex'rs, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 527, 535. LUCTUOSA HL3EREDITAS. A mourn ful inheritance. See H^EBEDITAS LUCTUOSA. LUCRI CAUSA. LUGGAGE. Luggage may consist ofany articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equip ment. Civ. Code Cal. § 2181. This term is synonymous with "baggage," but is more commonly used in England than in America. See Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Shepherd, 8 Exch. 37; Duffy v. Thompson, 4 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 180; Choctaw, etc., R. Co. v. Zwirtz, 13 Okl. 411, 73 Pac. 941. Lat. In the civil law. Light; the light of the sun or sky; the privilege of receiving light into a house. A light or window. LUMINA. Lat In the civil law. Lights; windows; openings to obtain light for one's building. A lamp or candle set burn ing on thealtar of anychurch or chapel, for the maintenance whereof lands and rent charges were frequently given to parish churches, etc. Kennett, Gloss. LUMPING SALEu As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as LUMEN. LUMINARE. LUCTUS. In Roman law. Mourning. See ANNUS LUCTUS.

LUPANATRIX.

A bawd or strumpet

3 Inst. 206.

LUPINUM CAPUT GERERE. Lat. To be outlawed, and have one's head exposed, like a wolf's, with a reward to himwho should take it. Cowell.

LURGULARY.

Casting any corrupt or

poisonous thing into the water.

Wharton.

LUSHBOROW. In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, andintroduced into England in the reign of Edward III. Pro hibited by St. 25 Edw. III. c. 4. Spelman; Cowell.