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  • 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...
  • REVESTIRE
    In old European law. To return or resign an Investiture, seisin, or, possession that has been received; to reinvest; to re-enfeoff. Spelman.
  • REVIEW
    A reconsideration; second view or examination;' revision; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of tbe examination of a cause by an appellate court, and of a second investigation of a proposed public road by a jury of viewers. See Weehawken Wharf Go. v. Knickerbocker Coal Co., 25 Misc. Rep. More...
  • REVILING CHURCH ORDINANCES
    An offense against religion punishable in England by flue and imprisonment, 4 Steph-.1
  • REVISE
    To review, re-examine. . for correction; to go over a thing for the purpose) of. amending, correcting, rearranging-; or otherrwise. Be improving it; as, to revise statutes or a judgment Casey v. Harmed, 5 Iowa 12; Vinsant v. Knox, 27 Ark. 272; Falconer v. Robinson, 46 Ala. .849.
  • REVISED STATUTES
    A body of statutes, which have been revised;, collected;' arranged in order, and re-enacted as. a whole. This is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states, and also of the United States.; Such a :volume is, usually cited as "|tev. Stat," "(tev> SU" More...
  • REVISING ASSESSORS
    In English Law. Two officers elected by the burgesses ot non-parllanientary municipal boroughs, the purpose of assisting the mayor In revising the parish burgess. Wharton.
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