California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Keck v. Cranston, 236 Cal.App.2d 39, 45 Cal.Rptr. 634 (Cal. App. 1965):
'The statute is not aimed at every transfer of the legal title without consideration. * * * It is aimed at transfers of the title that have the quality of a gift, and a gift is not consummate until put beyond recall.' (Burnet v. Guggenheim, supra, (1932) 288 U.S. 280, 286, 53 S.Ct. 369, 371.)
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