Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Reversion
n. 1. A future interest in land arising by operation of law whenever an estate owner grants to another a particular estate, such as a life estate or a term of years, but does not dispose of the entire interest. ( A reversion occurs automatically upon termination of the prior estate, as when a life tenant dies. - Also termed reversionary estate; estate in reversion; equitable reversion. 2. Loosely, REMAINDER. -revert, vb. - reversionary , adj. Cf. POSSIBILITY OF REVERTER; REMAINDER.
Reversioner
1. One who possesses the reversion to an estate; the grantor or heir in reversion. 2. Broadly, one who has a lawful interest in land but not the present possession of it.
estate in reversion
See REVERSION.
reversio
[Law Latin] Hist. The returning of land to the grantor.