incomplete transfer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 278 U.S. 339 - Reinecke v. Northern Trust Co. · 1929Most cited · 940 citing opinions
A transfer made subject to a power of revocation in the transferor, terminable at his death, is not complete until his death.
How often courts cite the case defining “incomplete transfer”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incomplete transfer” — 940 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.