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Directions: Choose the correct meaning for each of the foreign language words and phrases given below.
inter vivos

Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • a transaction made for obtaining a legacy
  • an agreement to promote the welfare of one‘s country
  • a transaction made between living people
  • an agreement between warring nations
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The Correct Option is C

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Latin legal phrases like this one are often best understood by the pair of terms they are usually contrasted with in law, rather than by breaking down the roots directly.

In the law of gifts and trusts, a transfer of property is usually classified into one of two kinds: one made while the giver is alive, and one made through a will, taking effect only after death. The second kind has its own well-known Latin label, "testamentary," tied to a will. "Inter vivos" is the label for the first kind, a transfer that takes effect during the lifetime of the person making it, precisely because it happens "between the living," as opposed to after death.

None of the other options describe this kind of living-to-living transfer. Getting a legacy happens after death, not during life. A country's welfare and an agreement between warring nations both belong to completely different areas, unrelated to how or when a transfer of property takes effect.

Once "inter vivos" is placed against its usual legal opposite, "testamentary," the meaning becomes clear.

So, the correct answer is a transaction made between living people.

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Looking at the grammatical shape of "inter vivos" first narrows things down before even worrying about the exact meaning. Let's check each option this way.

  1. Option A, "a transaction made for obtaining a legacy": "Inter vivos" is built from a preposition plus a plural noun, describing a condition or timing under which something happens, not the purpose or goal of a transaction. Obtaining a legacy describes a purpose, so the grammatical shape already doesn't line up.
  2. Option B, "an agreement to promote the welfare of one's country": This describes the subject matter of an agreement, a policy goal, again not a timing condition. The structure of "inter vivos" doesn't fit a description of what an agreement is about.
  3. Option C, "a transaction made between living people": This is exactly a timing and condition description, when and among whom something takes place, which matches "inter vivos" as a preposition-plus-noun phrase describing the circumstances of a transaction.
  4. Option D, "an agreement between warring nations": This also describes the parties and subject matter of an agreement rather than a timing condition attached to a transaction, so it doesn't match the phrase's structure either.

Since "inter vivos" grammatically functions as a condition describing when a transaction happens, only the option phrased the same way, as a timing condition rather than a purpose or subject matter, fits.

So, the correct answer is a transaction made between living people.

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