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Home Dictionary Name: causacausa mortis
causa mortis [Latin mortis causa in contemplation of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] usually used following the term it modifies see also gift causa mortis at gift compare inter vivos ...
Causa proxima
Causa proxima, the same as causa causans. See In Jure Non Remota Causa Sed Proxima Spectatur....
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa pr'ter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem
Nudum pactum est ubi nulla subest causa pr'ter conventionem; sed ubi subest causa, fit obligatio, et parit actionem. Plow. 309, (A naked contract is where there is no foundation for it except the agreement; but where there is a ground, it becomes an obligation, and gives a right of action.) Similarly, Nuda pactio obligationem non parit. Dig. 2, 14, 7, s. 4, (A naked promise does not be get an obligation); and ex nudo pacto non oritur actio. Noy's Max. 24, (An action does not arise from a bare promise.)-See CONSIDERATION; and Vanbergen v. St. Edmund's Properties Ltd., (1933) 2 KB 223....
causae
causae pl of causa ...
donatio mortis causa
donatio mortis causa [Latin, literally, gift in contemplation of death] : donation mortis causa at donation ...
lucri causa
lucri causa [New Latin, literally, for the sake of gain] : intent to obtain a gain [because lucri causa is required for larceny "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] ...
mortis causa
mortis causa : causa mortis ...
Causa mortis
Causa mortis (in case of death). See Donatio Mortis Causa....
Decreet cognitionis causa
Decreet cognitionis causa, when a creditor brings his action against the heir of his debtor in order to constitute the debt against him and attach the lands, and the heir appears and renounces the succession, the Court then pronounces a decree cognitionis causa, Bell's Scots Law Dict...
Donatio mortis causa
Donatio mortis causa, a gift of personal property in prospect of death; a death-bed disposition; an inchoate gift of personalty consummated by the giver's death.It is derived from the Civil Law; Justinian's Inst. Lib. 2, tit. 7, shows its nature. To render this kind of gift valid, it (1) must be made by the giver, when ill, in anticipation of his death; (2) must be intended to take effect only upon his death by his existing illness, for his recovery from that illness, or his subsequent personal revocation of the gift, as by resuming its possession, will defeat it; and (3) a traditio or delivery, either actual or symbolical, of the subject of the gift, or of the instrument which represents it, must be made to the donee, either for his own use, or upon trust for another person, or for a particular purpose. The gift of a cheque upon the donor's banker is not good as a donatio mortis causa, because it is a gift which can only be made effectual by obtaining payment of it in the donor's life...
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