 | John Edson Brady - 1911 - 338 sider
...the wife, nor is it in connection with the other evidence in the case sufficient to establish a gift. To constitute a perfect gift, the donor must part with the possession of, and the dominion over, the property. In this case, the husband retained control over the property... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1914 - 1124 sider
...Pahlman, 45 Mo. App. 160. The donor must part not only with the possession, but with the dominion. If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires...some equivalent instrument, and the transfer must be executed ; 1 Swanst 436; Picot v. Sanderson, 12 NC 309. Delivery first and gift afterwards of a chattel... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - 1921 - 1544 sider
...answer that purpose. That apparently was Kent's opinion. See 3 Kent Com.* 439, where it is stated that, "If the thing given be a chose in action, the law...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed." An unsealed assignment, aided by the statutes which dispense with the necessity of a seal for a deed,... | |
 | 1923 - 1116 sider
...thing. It must be the true and effectual way of obtaining the command and dominion of the subject. If the thing given be a chose in action the law requires...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed." Quoted in Giselman v. Starr, 106 Cal. 651, 40 Pac. 8. As to indorsement and delivery of certificates... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - 1925 - 1056 sider
...delivery; and if the thing be not capable of actual delivery, there must be some act equivalent to it. If the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed. 2 Kent's Com. p. 439. If the subject be a common law chose in action, the legal title of which is not... | |
 | 1881 - 572 sider
...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...some equivalent instrument, and the transfer must be actrally executed." [2 Kent. Com. •439.— ED. Cent. LJ] In the case at bar, the subject of the proposed... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1917 - 940 sider
...a quotation from the second volume of Kent's Commentaries in which the following sentence appears: "If the thing given be a chose in action, the law...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed." This declaration loses its force when read in the light of section 1047 of the Civil Code of California... | |
 | United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue - 1901 - 380 sider
...Chancellor Kent, in his Commentaries (vol. 2, page 439), says, in treating of the subject of delivery: "If the thing given be a chose in action, the law...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed." And in Bouvier's Law Dictionary it is said : "To constitute a legal delivery it is necessary that all... | |
 | 1923 - 1642 sider
...... It must be the true and effectual way of obtaining the command and dominion of the subject. ... if the thing given be a chose in action, the law requires...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed.' The Civil Code declares that a verbal gift is not valid unless the means of obtaining possession and... | |
 | 1924 - 952 sider
...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...instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed." (2 Kent's Commentaries, p. 439.) Or, as the rule is stated in Cook v. Lum, 55 NJL 373 [26 Atl. 803]:... | |
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If the thing given be a chose In action, the law requires an assignment or some equivalent Instrument, and the transfer must be actually executed. 
