A legal term from Roman law referring to a gift or donation made formally between parties; the act of giving property to another.
From Latin donatio, derived from donare (to give). It's a legal term that entered English through the study of Roman law and remains in legal scholarship.
Roman law 'donatio' had strict rules—you couldn't just give a gift casually, it had to be formal, witnessed, and announced, or it wasn't legally real!
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