What is a “gift” at law?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Robia v Benoit, 2017 CanLII 74361 (NL PC):
A gift is a gratuitous transfer of property in which the donor retains no interest and expects no remuneration. In Peter v. Beblow, 1993 CanLII 126 (SCC), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 980, McLachlin J. (as she was then) described the “central element of a gift at law” as the “intentional giving to another without expectation of remuneration.”
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