Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The person entitled to receive the reversion of an estate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements after a particular estate granted is determined: loosely applied in a general sense to any person entitled to any future estate in real or personal property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A person who possesses the
reversion to anestate oroffice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion
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Examples
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Madame de Misery, Baronne de Biache, the Queen's first lady of the chamber, to whom I was made reversioner, was a daughter of M. le Comte de Chemant, and her grandmother was a Montmorency.
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/2 It is used in a somewhat different sense is describing the relation between a tenant for life or years and a reversioner.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Rumour has long since pointed to the Advocates 'Library at Edinburgh as the ultimate reversioner.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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This tenancy at sufferance applies also to an under-tenant, who remains in possession and pays rent to the reversioner or head landlord.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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This tenancy at sufferance applies also to an under-tenant, who remains in possession and pays rent to the reversioner or head landlord.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Biache, the Queen's first lady of the chamber, to whom I was made reversioner, was a daughter of M. le Comte de Chemant, and her grandmother was a Montmorency.
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Biache, the Queen's first lady of the chamber, to whom I was made reversioner, was a daughter of M. le Comte de Chemant, and her grandmother was a Montmorency.
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Or the case may be likened to the ordinary one of a tenant for life, who may hypothecate the land for his debts, during the continuance of his usufruct; but at his death, the reversioner (who is also for life only) receives it exonerated from all burthen.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Or the case may be likened to the ordinary one of a tenant for life, who may hypothecate the land for his debts, during the continuance of his usufruct; but at his death, the reversioner (who is also for life only) receives it exonerated from all burthen.
Letters 1760
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- Any earlier seed of Mac OS X v10. 6.4 ONLY AFTER installing the included reversioner.
AvaxHome ToaDoChet 2010
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