donation

[Lat. donatio, from donatus, pa. par. of do no to give as a present; Fr. donation; Sp. donacion; Ital. do nazi one.] IMG:content-0369.png:[blocks in formation] "Voluntary donations to the charity-box."- Anecdotes of Bp. Watson, ii. 113. II. Law : The act or contract by which anything, or the use of and right to it, is transferred as a free gift to any person or corporation; a deed of gift. Two things are required to make a donation valid: (1) that there is legal capacity in the donor to give, and in the donee to receive, and (2) that there is consent, delivery, and acceptance. Donation mort is causa : Law : When a person in his last sickne , apprehending his di olution near, delivers or causes to be delivered to another the po e ion of any personal goods, under which have been included bonds, and bills drawn by the deceased upon his banker, to keep in case of his decease, such delivery is said to be a donation mort is causa . This gift, if the donor dies, needs not the a ent of his executor; yet ic shall not prevail against creditors, and is accompanied with this implied trust, that, if the donor lives, the property thereof shall revert to himself, being only given in contemplation of death, or mort is causa. ( Black stone . )