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donatio inter vivos [Latin, literally, gift between living people] : donation inter vivos at donation ...
collation
collation [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of Louisiana : the actual or supposed return of goods to the mass of the succession that is made by an heir who received property in advance for the purpose of having the property divided with the rest of the succession compare hotchpot NOTE: Children and grandchildren of a decedent must return anything that they received in advance by donation inter vivos. Further, they cannot claim legacies made to them unless made expressly by the decedent as an advantage over their coheirs to be received besides their portion of the succession. Donations made to a grandchild by a grandparent during the life of the child's father are not subject to collation. A collation may be made in kind by the actual delivering up of the thing given, or by taking less from the succession in proportion to the v...
Jamaican switch
Jamaican switch, means an illegal scheme whereby one conspirator convinces the victim of a need for help in handling a large sum of money, usu. by claiming to be an unsophisticated foreigner and promises to share part of the money with the victim or asks the victim for help in finding a suitable charity to donate to, at which time the other conspirator appears and promises to assist if both the victim and first conspirator provide good-faith money, the intent being for the two conspirators to leave with all the money, including the victim's, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839....
sell
sell sold sell·ing vt 1 : to transfer ownership of by sale compare barter, convey, give 2 : to offer for sale vi : to dispose of something by sale : make a sale compare donate sell·er n sell short : to sell something one does not own : make a short sale ...
deliver
deliver -ered -er·ing : to transfer possession of (property) to another : put into the possession or exclusive control of another [a deed must be ed to be effective "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] see also gift compare bail, convey, donate, give, sell de·liv·er·able adj ...
convey
convey con·veyed con·vey·ing : to transfer or transmit (property or property rights) to another esp. by a writing (as a deed or will) [agreed to to the estate his Manhattan town house "R. H. Jensen"] compare alienate, devise, donate, give, grant, sell con·vey·ee [kən-vā-ē] n con·vey·or [kən-vā-ər] n ...
Reducing agent
a substance that causes reduction of another substance in a chemical reaction as by donating electrons or adding hydrogen atoms as lithium hydride is a powerful reducing agent...
Donator
One who makes a gift a donor a giver...
Donee
The person to whom a gift or donation is made...
Donet
Same as Donat Piers Plowman...
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