Donation

A donation is a gift and gratuity, and not a grant of land founded on a consideration, as where the government is bound to make it by treaty stipulation conferring mutual benefits.

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution, or induction. 3 Steph. Comm. 81. The act by which the owner of a thing voluntarily transfers the title and possession of the same from himself to another person, without any consideration. Ind. N. & S. R. R. Co. V. City of Attica, 56 Ind. 486. A donation, as defined by the civil law, is a contract whereby a person gratuitously dispossesses himself of something by transferring it to another to be his property, who accepts it. It is a contract or agreement, and must be accepted by the donee, otherwise it would be a mere offer. It must also be gratuitous, because otherwise, it would be a sale or exchange. 43 Texas, 343.

See Don Alio.

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone.

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benelice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution, or induction. 3 Steph. Comm. 81. In general. <A gift. See Donatio.

See Donatio. A contract by which a person gratuitously dispossesses himself of something by transferring it to another to become the latter's property upon acceptance.^ > Grattan u. Appleton, 3 Story, 755, 763 (1843). » 1 Story, Eq. §§ 606-7; 3 Pomeroy, Eq. §§ 1146-51; 2 Kent, S44. 3 Baslcet v. Hassel!, 107 U. S. 609-10, 614 (18S2), oases, Matthews, J.; Same v. Same, 108 id. 267 (ISSS), 8 Biss- 306-9 (1878), cases. See also 16 Ala. 221; 511 Cal. 665; 38 Ind. 454; 54 N. H. 37; 31 Me. 439; 77 Mo. 173; 30 Hun, 6.53,635; 20 Johns. 514; 33 N. Y. 581; 23 Pa. 63; 51 id. 340-50; 39 Vt. 634; 4 Gratt. 479; 1 Am. Law Reg. I-ll (18.53), 'cases; 19 Cent. Law J. 233-30 (1834), cases; 3 Law Q. Rev. 4+i-.'i3 (1886); 31 Am. Law Rev. 733-63 (1887), cases; Ward v. Tiu-ner, W. & T. L. C. Eq. Vol. 1, pt. 2, 1205-51, cases. Donate. To' give gratuitously or without consideration.! In the aotof Indiana o£ May 9, 1869, enabling a city to aid the construction of a railroad, etc., " donation " means an absolute gift or grant of a thing without any condition or consideration.^ See Aid, 1, Municipal. Letting the labor of convicts in consideration of their being fed, clothed, etc., by the hirer, is not a " donation " or gratuity.^

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution or induction. 3 Steph. Com. 81.

contracts, is the act by which the owner of a thing, voluntarily transfers the title and possion of the same,. from. himself to another person, without any consideration; a gift(q. v-) A donation is never perfected, until it has been accepted, for the acceptance, (q- v.) is requisite to make the donation complete. Vide Assent, and Ayl. Pand. tit. 9; Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.