Donatio inter vivos
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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.
Civ. Code La. art 1468.