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GIFT Definition & Legal Meaning

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A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another,made gratuitously, and not upon any consideration of blood or money. 2 Rl.Comm. 440; 2 Steph. Comm. 102; 2 Kent, Comm. 437. And see Ingram v. Colgan, 100Cal. 113, 38 Pac. 315, 28 L. It. A. 187, 40 Am. St. Rep. 221; Gray v. Barton, 55 N. Y.72, 14 Am. Rep. 1S1; Williamson v. Johnson, 02 Vt. 378, 20 Atl. 279, 9 L. It. A. 277, 22Am. St. Rep. 117; Flanders v. Blandy, 45 Ohio St. 113, 12 N. E. 321.A gift is a transfer of personal property, made voluntarily and without consideration.Civil Code Cal.

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