Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

Section IV   Registration as regards gifts inter vivos in particular

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    745.   Inscription of gifts inter vivos in the Supreme Court is abolished. Registration in the Office of Deeds and Mortgages is sufficient.

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    746.   The effect of the registration of gifts inter vivos and of the neglect of such registration, is regulated, as to immovables and real rights, by the general laws concerning the registration of such rights.

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    Beyond this the registration of gifts is required particularly in the interest of the heirs and the legatees of the donor, his or her creditors, and all others interested, according to the following rules.

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    747.   All gifts inter vivos, of movable or immovable property, must be registered; save the exceptions contained in the following article. The donor himself or herself cannot set up the want of registration, neither can the donee or his heirs; but it may be set up by any person entitled to do so under the registry law, by the heir, legatee, or creditor of the donor, or by any other persons interested in having the gift declared void.

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    748.   Gifts of movable effects, whether universal or particular, are exempt from registration when they are followed by actual delivery and public possession by the donee.

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    749.   The registration of all gifts inter vivos is subject to the rules concerning registration contained in the Eighteenth Book of this Part.

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    750.   The donor is not liable for the consequences of the want of registration.

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    Married women, minors or interdicted persons are not relieved from the failure to register the gift, but they have their recourse against those who neglected to effect such registration.

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    Husbands, tutors, administrators, and others whose duty it is to effect registration, cannot avail themselves of the absence of it.