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Ingratitude

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Roman law, ingratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, with respect to the first case. But the English law has left the matter entirely to the moral sense.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Roman law, ingratitude was accounted a sullicient cause with respect to the first case. But the English law bas left the matter entirely to the mora] sense.