donatio mortis causa
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A gift made in contemplation of imminent death, conditional on the donor actually dying and revocable until then.
Handing over the key to the deposit box from his hospital bed, he made a valid donatio mortis causa of its contents.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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