Donatio Inter Vivos
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A gift between the living. The ordinary kind of gift by one person to another.
2 Kent, Comm. 438; 2 Steph. Comm. 102.
A term derived from the civil law.
Inst, 2, 7, 2.
A donation inter vivos (between living persons) is an act by which the donee divests himself at present and irrevocably of the thing given in favor of the donee who accepts it. Civil Code La. art.
1468.