Category: L

Equal to 29.53 days. Two successive new moons define this period.

A person of deranged or unsound 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.

In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coined only at London, (a Londres.) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell.

A bawd or strumpet. 3 Inst. 200.

Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolf’s, with a reward to him who should take it. Cowell.

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. Bep. S02; State v. Slingerland. 19 Nev. 135, 7 Pac. 2S0.

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.

A mournful inheritance. See H^EKEDITAS LUCTUOSA.

Luggage may consist of any articles intended for the use of a passenger while traveling, or for his personal equipment. Civ. Code Cal.