transfer by gift
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 288 U.S. 280 - Burnet v. Guggenheim · 1933Most cited · 646 citing opinions
The statute is not aimed at every transfer of the legal title without consideration. It is aimed at transfers of the title that have the quality of a gift, and a gift is not consummate until put beyond recall.
How often courts cite the case defining “transfer by gift”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “transfer by gift” — 646 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.