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Donatio Mortis Causa: The doctrine of giving
Richard Selwyn Sharpe examines how a gift in contemplation of death is treated in the modern world ‘The gift must be conditional on the donor’s death and is therefore revocable until that event occurs. The donor sometimes expresses the intention in words to the donee that the gift is conditional on death but this is …
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- Birch & anor v Treasury Solicitor [1950] 2 All ER 1198 (CA)
- Bohan v Walker [1928] 4 DLR 630
- Cosnahan v Grice [1862] UKPC 12
- Re Craven's Estate [1937] 1 Ch 423; [1937] 1 Ch 431
- Re Dillon (1890) 44 Ch D 76
- Sen v Headley [1990] Ch 728; [1991] EWCA Civ 13
- Slovchenko v Toronto Dominion Bank (1963) 42 DLR (2d) 484
- Taylor & Nelson v Ireton (unreported 22 November 2010)