contracts, legacies. A gift in prospect of death. When a person in sickness, apprehending his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered to another, the possession of any personal goods, to keep as his own, in case of the donor's decease. 2 Bl. Com. 514 see Civ. Code of Lou. art. 1455. 2. The civil law defines it to be a gift under apprehension of death; as, when any … [Read more...]

Ownership, or right to property. 2 Bl. Comm. 1. Title to an article of property which arises from the power of disposition and the right of claiming it Baker v. Westcott, 73 Tex. 129, 11 S. W. 157. "The holder has the dominion of the bill." 8 East, 579. Sovereignty or lordship; as the dominion of the seas. Moll, de Jure Mar. 91, 92. In the civil law. with reference to the title … [Read more...]

contracts. 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; a gift. 2. A donation is never perfected until it is has been accepted, for the acceptance is requisite to make the donation complete. … [Read more...]

In the civil and old English law. Ownership; property in the largest sense, including both the right of property and the right of possession or use. The mere right of property, as distinguished from the possession or usufruct. Dig. 41, 2, 17, 1; Calvin. The right which a lord had in the fee of his tenant. In this sense the word is very clearly distinguished by Bracton from … [Read more...]

Vivos, contracts. A contract which takes place by the mutual consent, of the giver, who divests himself of the thing given in order to transmit the title of it to the donee gratuitously, and the donee, who accepts the thing and acquires a legal title to it. 2. This donation takes place when the giver is not in any immediate apprehension of death, which distinguishes it from a … [Read more...]