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‖ donatio mortis causa, n. phr. Law.|dəʊˈneɪʃɪəʊ ˈmɔːtɪs ˈkɔːzə|
Pl. donationes |dəʊneɪʃɪˈəʊniːz|.
[L., = gift by reason of death.]
A (revocable) gift of personal property or land made in contemplation of death, and effective upon the death of the donor.
a1656A. Gibson Decisions Lds. of Council & Session (1690) 190 The said Bond being donatio mortis causa..was revockable. 1743Swinburne's Treat. of Testaments i. vii. 23 If he had used no Words, and had been near Death, it had been looked on as Donatio mortis causa. 1835Tomlins's Law Dict. (ed. 4) I. s.v., Donatio causa mortis. A gift in prospect of death; a death-bed disposition; viz. when a person in his last sickness..delivers..to another, the possession of any personal goods, to be kept in case of his decease. 1934Law Q. Rev. L. 315 The Supreme Court had gone on to say that the bank books and promissory notes were capable of being the subject of a good donatio mortis causa. 1973Times 9 June 19/3 Gifts donationes mortis causa can never be exempt from estate duty. 1984R. D. Oughton Tyler's Family Provision (ed. 2) vii. 212 If the gift was made in contemplation of death and conditional upon death, then the gift is a donatio mortis causa. |