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Hogmanay

a dole of bread or cakes also the entertainment given on that day to a visitor or the gift given to an applicant

Proffer

To offer for acceptance to propose to give to make a tender of as to proffer a gift to proffer services to proffer friendship

Ademption by satisfaction

the testator, while alive, has already given property to the beneficiary with the intention of rendering the testamentary gift inoperative, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 40.

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Accounts duties

s. 38, at the same rates as the Probate Duties, upon a donatio mortis causa (q.v.); upon the gift inter vivos of a donor dying within three months; on joint property voluntarily so created and taken by

Acquet

Acquet, means property acquired by purchase, gift, or any means other than inheritance; profits or gains of property between husband and wife, Black Law Dictionary,

Acquiesce

inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase or prescription or in any manner whatsoever.

Acquisition

2003), s. 2(a)] 'Acquisition', with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes hiring, borrowing, or accepting as a gift. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(a)] The office of one functionary is brought to an end

Act of Bankruptcy

made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally. (b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof. (c) Having made a conveyance amounting to

Receive

or the like to accept as to receive money offered in payment of a debt to receive a gift a message or a letter

Eleemosynarius

Eleemosynarius, the almoner or peculiar officer who received the rents and gifts, and in due method distributed them to pious and charitable uses.

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