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  • RBVERSE, REVERSED
    A term frequently used in the judgments of an appellate court, In disposing of the case before it. It then means "to set aside; to annul; to va* cate." Lalthe v. McDonald, 7 Kan. 254.
  • REVERSER
    In Scotch law. The proprieter of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of tils lands/ and who has'a'right', on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell..
  • REVERSIBLE ERROR
    See ERROR.
  • REVERSIO
    L. Lat. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor Fleta, lib. 3, cc. 10, 12. Roversio terras est tanqnam terra rove rtens in possessione dona tori, sive bredibns suis post donnm nnitnm. Co. Litt 142. A reversion of land is, as it were, the return of More...
  • REVERSIONARY
    That which is to be enjoyed in reversion. Reversionary interest. The interest which a person has in the reversion of lands or other property. A right to the future enjoyment of property, at present iN tbe possession or occupation of another. Holthouse.-t"Rever-sionary lease.' One to take effect in ] future. More...
  • REVERSION
    In real property law. A reversion is the residue of an estate left by operation of law in the grantor or his heirs, or in the heirs of a testator, commencing in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised. How. St Mich.. 1882, ? 5528; Civ. More...
  • REVERSIONER
    A person who Is entitled to an estate in reversion. By an extension of its meaning, one who is entitled to any future estate or any property in expectancy:
  • REVERT
    To revert is to return. Thus, when the owner of an estate in land has granted a smaller estate to another person, on the determination of the latter estate, the' land is said to "revert" to the grantor. Sweet
  • REVERTER
    Reversion. A possibility of reverter is that species of reversionary interest which exists when the grant is so limited that it may possibly terminate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 6S See FORMEDON IN THE REVERTER.
  • REVEST
    To vest again. A seisin is said to revest, where it is acquired a second time by the party out of whom it has been divested. 1 Rop. Husb. & Wife, 353. It is opposed to "divest" The words "revest" and "divest" are also applicable to. the mere right or More...
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