Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2715 – Amendment or revocation of the gift
(a) If the will, card or other document or executed copy thereof has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by:
(1) The execution and delivery to the donee of a signed statement;
(2) An oral statement made in the presence of 2 persons and communicated to the donee;
(3) A statement during a terminal illness or injury addressed to an attending physician and communicated to the donee; or
(4) A signed card or document found on the person or in the person’s effects.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2715
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make, amend, or revoke an anatomical gift. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
- Donee: The recipient of a gift.
- Donee: means a person authorized to receive an anatomical gift. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Donor: means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of the individual's body. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Part: includes organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of a human body, and "part" includes "parts. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
- Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
(b) Any document of gift which has not been delivered to the donee may be revoked by the donor in the manner set in subsection (a) of this section or by destruction, cancellation or mutilation of the document and all executed copies thereof.
(c) Any gift made by a will may also be amended or revoked in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(d) Unless a revocation of a gift under this section includes an objection or refusal to make a gift of a part, it shall not prohibit a person listed in § 2711(c) of this title from authorizing such a gift.
24 Del. C. 1953, § ?1785; 57 Del. Laws, c. 445, § ?2; 65 Del. Laws, c. 487, § ?3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 182, § ?1;