Legal Definition and Related Resources of Gift

A voluntary transfer of any thing made without consideration or expectation of consideration. The essential components of a valid completed gift of personal property are: competency of the donor to give the gift; voluntary intent on the part of the donor to make a gift; delivery , either actual or symbolic; acceptance , actual or imputed; complete divestment of all control by the donor and a lack of consideration. Gifts are of two kinds: inter vivos and mortis causa. The first is the gratuitous transfer of property by the donor to the donee during the donor’s lifetime, with full intent to pass title to the donee and, the transfer is also accompanied by delivery. A gift, or donatio mortis causa leaves the title, possession and beneficial interest in the donor until his death and is conditional upon the donor’s death.

A voluntary conveyance; that is, a conveyance not founded on the consideration of money or blood. The word denotes rather the motive of the conveyance, so that a feoffment or grant may be called a gift when gratuitous. A gift is of the same nature as a settlement, neither denotes a form of assurance, but the nature of the transaction. Watk. Conv. (Preston Ed.) 199. The operative words of this conveyance are do, or dedi, I give, or I have given. The maker of this instrument is called the donor, and he to whom it is made, the donee. 2 Bl. Comm. 316; Litt. 59; Shep. Touch, c. 11. Gifts inter vivos are gifts made from one or more persons, without any prospect of immediate death, to one or more others. Gifts causa mortis are gifts made in prospect of death, and on the implied condition that they shall be of no effect if the donor shall recover. 49 N. Y. 17. See “Donatio.”

(Flair), noun

• ability
• adeptness
• adroitness
• aptitude
• capability
• capacity
• cleverness
• competence
• cunning
• deftness
• dexterity
• dextrousness
• endowment
• expertise
• expertness
• facility
• faculty
• felicity
• forte
• genius
• handiness
• inborn aptitude
• ingeniousness
• ingenuity
• innate ability
• innate quality
• instinct
• knack
• mastery
• natura et ingenium
• natural ability
• natural quality
• proficiency
• qualification
• quality
• readiness
• skill
• skillfulness
• special ability
• special endowment
• talent
• turn

(Present), noun

• allowance
• award
• benefaction
• bestowment
• contribution
• dispensation
• donation
• donative
• donum
• endowment
• favor
• grant
• gratuity
• legacy
• munus
• present
• presentation
• tribute
• Associated Concepts: absolute gift
• acceptance of a gift
• bequest
• charitable gift
• class gift
• conditional gift
• contingent gift
• delivery of a gift
• devise
• donative intent for a gift
• executory gift
• expectation of a gift
• future gift
• gift causa mortis
• gift fora public purpose
• gift in contemplation of death
• gift in praesend
• gift to take effect at death
• illusory gift
• incomplete gift
• intervivos gift
• qualified gift
• revocable gift
• testamentary gift
• unconditional gift
• verbal gift foreign phrases: Invito beneficium non datur
• A benefit is not conferred upon a person against his will
• Modus legem dat donationi
• Custom gives validity to the gift
• Ubi et dantis et accipientis turpitudo versatur
• non posse repeti dicimus; quotiens autem accipientis turpitudo versatur
• repeti posse
• Where there is turpitude by both the giver and receiver
• we say it cannot be recovered back; but whenever the turpitude is in the receiver only
• it can be recovered
• Non valet donatio nisi subsequatur traditio
• A gift is invalid unless accompanied by possession
• Nemo dare potest quod non habet
• No one is able to give that which he has not
• Nemo praesumitur donare
• No one is presumed to have made a gift
• Inter alias causas acquisitions
• magna
• Celebris
• et famosa est causa donatioms
• Among other methods of acquiring property
• there is a great
• frequently used and famous means
• that of gift
• Cujusper errorem dati repetitio est
• ejus consulto dati donatio est
• That which
• when given deliberately is a gift
• Cujus est dare
• ejus est disponere
• He who has a right to give
• has the right to dispose of the gift
• Nul charter
• nul vente
• ne nul done vaultperpetualment
• si le donor n ‘est seise al temps de contracts de deux droits
• sc
• del droit de possession et del droit depropertie
• No grant
• no sale
• no gift
• is valid forever
• at the time of contract
• has two rights
• namely
• the right of possession
• and the right of property
• Sola acper se senectus donationem testamentum aut transactionem non vitiat
• Old age alone and of itself will not vitiate a will or gift
• Old age alone and of itself will not vitiate a will or gift
• Qui sciens solvit indebitum donandi consilio id videtur fecisse
• One who knowingly pays what is not due is deemed to have done it with the intention of making a gift
• Legatum morte testatoris tantum confirmatur
• sicut donatio inter vivos traditione sola
• A legacy is confirmed by the death of a testator
• in the same manner as a gift
• as between living persons is confirmed by delivery alone
• has the right to dispose of the gift
• Nul charter
• nul vente
• ne nul done vaultperpetualment
• si le donor n ‘est seise al temps de contracts de deux droits
• sc
• del droit de possession et del droit depropertie
• No grant
• no sale
• no gift
• is valid forever
• unless the donor
• at the time of contract
• has two rights
• namely
• the right of possession
• and the right of property
• Sola acper se senectus donationem testamentum aut transactionem non vitiat
• Old age alone and of itself will not vitiate a will or gift
• Qui sciens solvit indebitum donandi consilio id videtur fecisse
• One who knowingly pays what is not due is deemed to have done it with the intention of making a gift
• Legatum morte testatoris tantum confirmatur
• sicut donatio inter vivos traditione sola
• A legacy is confirmed by the death of a testator
• in the same manner as a gift
• as between living persons is confirmed by delivery alone
• Donatio perficitur possessione accipientis
• A gift is perfected by the possession of the receiver
• Confirmatio est nulla ubi donumpraecedens est invalidum
• A confirmation is a nullity
• where the preceding gift is invalid
• Dans et retinens
• nihil dat
• A person who gives and retains possession
• gives nothing
• Donari videtur
• quod nullo jure cogente conceditur
• That is considered to be given which is transferred under no legal compulsions
• Donator nunquam desinit possidere
• antequam donatorius incipiat possidere
• A donor never ceases to possess until the donee begins to possess
• Donatio non praesumitur
• A gift is not presumed to have been made
• Dona clandestina sunt semper suspiciosa
• Clandestine gifts are always open to suspicion

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Gift in the United States

Gift in Connecticut

A gift is the transfer of property without consideration. It requires two things: a delivery of the possession of the property to the donee, and an intent that the title thereto shall pass immediately to him. Coppola v. Farina, 50 Connecticut (provision) Sup. 11, 13,910 A.2d 1011 (2006).

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Anality; Money in psychoanalytic treatment

fear the Greeks bearing gifts, Greek gift, seven gifts of the holy spirit, the gift of tongues

Further Reading

Abraham, Karl. (1966). Examen de l’étape prégénitale la plus précoce du développement de la libido. Complete works, vol. 2, 1915-1925. (pp. 231-254) (I. Barande, Trans.) Paris: Payot. (Original work published 1916)

. (1979). A particular form of neurotic resistance against the psycho-analytic method. (pp. 303-311) In Selected papers of Karl Abraham, M.D. (Douglas Bryan and Alix Strachey, Trans.) New York: Brunner/Mazel. (Original work published 1927)

Freud, Sigmund. (1908b). Character and anal erotism. SE,9: 169-175.

. (1916-17e). On transformations of instinct as exemplified in anal erotism. SE, 17: 127-133.

. (1918b). From the history of an infantile neurosis. SE, 17: 1-122.

. (1920g). Beyond the pleasure principle. SE, 18: 1-64.

Klein, Melanie. (1975). The psycho-analysis of children. (Alix Strachey, Trans.) London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1932)

Gift in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of gift.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• gift in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• gift in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Gift

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Gift :

A gratuitous transfer or grant of property. A legally valid gift must normally be effected by deed, by physical delivery in the case of chattels, or by *donatio mortis causa; the donor must intend ownership to pass as a gift. However, an imperfect gift (i.e. one for which the legal formalities have not been observed) may be treated as valid in equity in certain circumstances (See, for example, (proprietary) estoppel). A gift by will takes effect only on the death of the testator.

Gift Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Gift in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: A valid transfer of property from one taxpayer to another without consideration or compensation. A gift may be subject to the unified estate and gift transfer tax.

Concept of Gift in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Gift: A voluntary transfer of property without valuable consideration.

Concept of Gift in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Gift: A voluntary transfer of property without valuable consideration.

Definition of The Gift

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of The Gift: Title of Marcel Mauss’ 1925 essay exploring the way in which gift giving among tribal societies is a moral exchange, driven by obligation, and how the giving away of one’s possessions as gifts creates individual wealth and status by expanding and cementing a complex network of personal and family obligations to the giver. See: KULA RING / MORAL ECONOMY / POTLATCH in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.

The Gift: Resources

Notes and References

• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) The Gift. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada

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What is Gift?

A definition of gift is: A voluntary transfer of property to another made gratuitously and without consideration. More details on the Encyclopedia. Bradley v. More details on the Encyclopedia. Bradley, Tex. More details on the Encyclopedia.Civ. More details on the Encyclopedia.App. More details on the Encyclopedia., 540 S. More details on the Encyclopedia.W. More details on the Encyclopedia.2d 504, 511. More details on the Encyclopedia. Essential requisites of “gift” are capacity of donor, intention of donor to make gift, completed delivery to or for donee, and acceptance of gift by donee. More details on the Encyclopedia.

More about the Concept of Gift

In tax law, a payment is a gift if it is made without conditions, from detached and disinterested generosity, out of affection, respect, charity or like impulses, and not from the constraining force of any moral or legal duty or from the incentive of expectd benefits of an economic nature. More details on the Encyclopedia.

Developments

An absolute gift, or gift inter vivos, as distinguished from a testamentary gift, or one made in contemplation of death, is one by which the donee becomes in the lifetime of the donor the absolute owner of the thing given, whereas a donatio mortis causa leaves the whole title in the donor, unless the event occurs (the death of the donor) which is to divest him. More details on the Encyclopedia.

Details

The only important difference between a “gift” and a “voluntary trust” is that in the case of a gift the thing itself passes to the donee, while in the case of a trust the actual, helpful, or equitable title passes to the cestui que trust, and the legal title is transferred to a third person, or retained by the person creating it. More details on the Encyclopedia. In re Alberts’ Estate, 38 Cal. More details on the Encyclopedia.App. More details on the Encyclopedia.2d 42, 100 P. More details on the Encyclopedia.2d 538, 540. More details on the Encyclopedia.

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In old English law (for more information on the <a href="https: //lawi. More details on the Encyclopedia.org. More details on the Encyclopedia.uk/”>English legal system and its history, visit the UK legal encycopedia), a conveyance of lands in tail; a conveyance of an estate tail in which the operative words are “I give,” or “I have given. More details on the Encyclopedia.” 2 Bl. More details on the Encyclopedia.Comm. More details on the Encyclopedia. 316.[1]

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Notes

1. “Gift” in the White America Dictionary (New York, Los Angeles, London, New Delhy, Hong Kong, 1989)

See Also

• Anatomical gift
• Annual exclusion
• Endowment
• Symbolic delivery
• Taxable gift
• Vested gift

Hierarchical Display of Gift

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Meaning of Gift

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Translation of Gift

• Spanish: Donación
• French: Donation
• German: Schenkung
• Italian: Donazione
• Portuguese: Doação
• Polish: Darowizna

Thesaurus of Gift

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• Foundation