Gift
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another, made gratuitously, and not upon any consideration of blood or money.
2 BL Comm. 410; 2 Steph. Comm. 102; 2 Kent, Comm. 437.
A gift isa transfer of personal property, made voluntarily and without consideration.
Civil Code Cal. § 1146.
In popular language, a voluntary conveyance or assignment is called a “deed of gift." “Gift” and “advancement” are sometimes used interchangeably as expressive of the saine operation. But, while anadvancement is always a gift, a gift is very frequently not an advancement.
38 Brewst. 314.
In English law
A conveyance of lands in tail; a conveyance of an estate tail in which the operative words are “I give,” or “Thaye given.”
2 BI. Comm. 316; 1 Steph. Comm. 473.