complete inter vivos 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
Since the power to revoke or alter was dependent on the consent of the one entitled to the beneficial, and consequently adverse, interest, the trust, for all practical purposes, had passed as completely from any control by decedent which might inure to his own benefit as if the gift had been absolute.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “complete inter vivos 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.