Gifts Inter Vivos

is a gift made from one or more persons, without any prospect of immediate death, to one or more others. These gifts are so called to distinguish them from gifts causa mortis, (vide Monatio causa mortis,) from which they differ essentially.—1. A gift inter vivos, when completed by delivery, passes the title to the thing so that it cannot be recovered back, by the giver: the gift causa mortts is always given upon the implied condition that the giver may at any time during his life revoke it. 7 Taunt. 231; 3 Binn. 366.—2. A gift inter vivos may be made by the while in peril of death. In both cases there must be a delivery. 2 Kent’s Com. 354.