If someone instructs witnesses to record a document for a gift he is going to give, and to give the document to the recipient, and they perform a formal act accepting the task, are they supposed to double-check before handing it to the recipient?: Ketuvot 55a
Legal Power of a Gift Recipient
Can a giver renege on a pledge to give a small or large gift: Bava Metzia 49a
The claim of a purchaser of an item to prevent its collection by one who has a claim on the seller, is weaker than the power of a claim by one who received the item as a gift: Bava Metzia 15a
The potential ownerlessness of property which one person attempts to give to another, but the intended recipient declines to accept: Keritot 24a-b
Other
The rabbinical court in Usha instituting that if a man gives all of his assets to his children during his lifetime, he and his wife are still supported from those assets [because we assume that was the father's intent]: Ketuvot 49b-50a
In general, people who give gifts do so generously, feeling grateful because the recipient did something that built the relationship - unless the recipient is one's child: Rashi Ketuvot 49b מיבעיא
