Osius v. Dingell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a valid gift “must invest ownership in the donee beyond the power of recall by the donor”
• “Such delivery must place the property within the dominion and control of the donee.”
• “It is a general principle of trust law that a trust is created only if the settlor manifests an intention to create a trust, and it is essential that there be an explicit declaration of trust accompanied by a transfer of property to one for the benefit of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).