 If the thing be not capable of actual delivery, there must be some act equivalent to it. The donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property.  Atlantic Reporter - Page 161895Full view - About this book
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...be not capable of actual delivery, flicre_imist be sotnc act equivalent to it^ The donor must |)art, not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property. 1 * if the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment, or some equivalent in^... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, Return Jonathan Meigs - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 720 pages
...in this as in every other case, must be according to the nature of the thing. The donor must part, not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property. If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment, or some equivalent instrument,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 878 pages
...August, 1884, was not completed or perfected. It was not valid as a gift inter vivos, for such a gift goes into absolute and immediate effect, the donor...possession, but with the dominion of the property. In this gift of Mr. Hudgins to Mrs. Thompson, he keeps possession, control and dominion of the stock,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...• Fink v. Cox, 18 Johns. Rep. 145. Pitta T. Man?um, 2 Bailiy'i 8. C. Rep. 588. SP donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property.* If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment, or some equivalent instrument,... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - Law - 1848 - 480 pages
...If not susceptible of actual delivery, there must be some act equivalent to it. The donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion, of the property. If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment or some equivalent instrument,... | |
 | Member of the New York Bar - Roman law - 1852 - 738 pages
...thing be not capable of actual delivery, there must be some act equivalent to it. The donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property. If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment, or some equivalent instrument,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 966 pages
...thing be not capable of actual delivery, there must be some act equivalent to it. The donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property, (e) If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires an assignment, or some equivalent instrument,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 754 pages
...capable of actual delivery, TESUROOK there must be some act equivalent to it. The donor must part, not only with the possession, but with the dominion of the property." 2 Kent's Com., 3d Ed., p. 438. Now, it seems clear enough that if the property in question was in the... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 654 pages
...is essential to the validity of a gift, that the subject of it be delivered ; " the donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion, of the property." 2 Kent's Comm. 439. The delivery, however, need not be direct to the donee himself. If the thing given... | |
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