Lucri Causa - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: lucri causalucri causa
lucri causa [New Latin, literally, for the sake of gain] : intent to obtain a gain [because lucri causa is required for larceny "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] ...
Lucri causa
Lucri causa [Lat.] (for the purpose of gain)....
causa mortis
causa mortis [Latin mortis causa in contemplation of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] usually used following the term it modifies see also gift causa mortis at gift compare inter vivos ...
Causa proxima
Causa proxima, the same as causa causans. See In Jure Non Remota Causa Sed Proxima Spectatur....
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa pr'ter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa pr'ter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem. Plow. 309, (A naked contract is where there is no foundation for it except the agreement; but where there is a ground, it becomes an obligation, and gives a right of action.) Similarly, Nuda pactio obligationem non parit. Dig. 2, 14, 7, s. 4, (A naked promise does not be get an obligation); and ex nudo pacto non oritur actio. Noy's Max. 24, (An action does not arise from a bare promise.)-See CONSIDERATION; and Vanbergen v. St. Edmund's Properties Ltd., (1933) 2 KB 223....
causae
causae pl of causa ...
donatio mortis causa
donatio mortis causa [Latin, literally, gift in contemplation of death] : donation mortis causa at donation ...
mortis causa
mortis causa : causa mortis ...
Causa mortis
Causa mortis (in case of death). See Donatio Mortis Causa....
Decreet cognitionis causa
Decreet cognitionis causa, when a creditor brings his action against the heir of his debtor in order to constitute the debt against him and attach the lands, and the heir appears and renounces the succession, the Court then pronounces a decree cognitionis causa, Bell's Scots Law Dict...
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