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noun
A deathbed gift: a future gift given in expectation of the donor's imminent death and only delivered upon the donor's death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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History
From Latin dōnātiō (“donation, gift”) + mortis (“death”) + causā (“on account of”, postposition). Literally a gift on account of (one's) death.
