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Donatio inter vivos

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A gift between persons living.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

Defined under Donatio in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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. Civil Code La. art. 1468.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. A gift between the living. The ordinary kind of gift by one person to another. 2 Kent's Com. 488. 2 Steph. Com. 102. A term derived from the civil law. Inst. 2. 7. 2.