Terms Used In Louisiana Civil Code 1468

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.

A donation inter vivos is a contract by which a person, called the donor, gratuitously divests himself, at present and irrevocably, of the thing given in favor of another, called the donee, who accepts it.

Amended by Acts 1871, No. 87; Acts 2008, No. 204, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.