For the donation inter vivos concept to be constituted, the Chilean legislation requires the donee's enrichment and the donor's impoverishment.On one hand, this work intends to explore how these requirements have been handled by the Chilean doctrine and compare them with the regulations in some European Civil Codes, such as the French, the Italian, the German, the Austrian and the Spanish Civil Codes; on the other hand, it aims at elucidating the Roman classic concept of Donation non mortis causa
