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  • Of course the amount paid in respect of _lucrum cessans_ must be reasonable in regard to the loss of opportunity actually experienced;

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • Closely allied to the title of _damnum emergens_ was that of _lucrum cessans_.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • The attitude of Aquinas to the admission of _lucrum cessans_ is obscure.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • The first thing to be noted on passing from the _poena conventionalis_ to interest proper is that the latter ground of compensation was generally divided into two kinds, _damnum emergens_ and _lucrum cessans_.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • The first clear recognition of the title _lucrum cessans_ occurs in

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • We have now discussed the extrinsic titles -- _poena conventionalis, damnum emergens, lucrum cessans_, and _periculum sortis_.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • The recognition of the title _lucrum cessans_ as a ground for remuneration clearly implies the recognition of the legitimacy of the owner of money deriving a profit from its use; and the slowness of the scholastics to admit this title was precisely because of the rarity of opportunities for so employing money in the earlier Middle Ages.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • The probability of there being a _lucrum cessans_ was thought small, but the justice of its reward, if it did in fact exist, was admitted.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • _Interesse remotum_, suggested alternative term to _lucrum cessans_, 187.

    An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

  • On the other hand, even the adversaries of the montes admitted that the damnum emergens or the lacrum cessans were legitimate titles upon which to require interest; and these two principles may be applied to the mons pietatis.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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