 | Sir Thomas Littleton - 1841 - 794 sider
...describes a reversion to be the returning of land to the grantor or his heirs after the grant is over. As, if there be a gift in tail, the reversion of the fee is, without any special reservation, vested in the donor by act of law : and so also the reversion, after an estate for life,... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - 1842 - 346 sider
...the act and operation of the law itself, and called a reversion. III. An estate in reversion, is tlie residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence...determination of some particular estate granted out by him.f Sir Edward Coke § describes a reversion to be the returning of land to the grantor or his heirs... | |
 | James Lord - 1844 - 306 sider
...property, may be conveyed, assigned, or charged by any deed. Of Reversions. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor to...determination of some particular estate granted out by him,* or the returning of land to the grantor or his heirs after the grant is over.f A reversion is never... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 sider
...operation of the law itself, and this is called a reversion. E»tatw in III. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to...determination of some particular estate granted out by him.h Sir Edward Coke1 describes a reversion to be the returning of land to the grantor or his heirs... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 702 sider
...reversion for herself, upon the death of the grantee, she surviving. Because, " an estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor to...determination of some particular estate, granted out by him." Here there is no particular estate granted out. Besides, reversions are created by operation of law,... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 744 sider
...in bate, the returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, after a particular estate is ended. The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of the particular estate granted. Succession; right to future possession or enjoyment. In algebra, reversion... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 sider
...land into the possession of the donor, or his heirs, after the gift is ended. Co. Litt. 142 b. — The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence...determination of some particular estate granted out by him. 2 Bl. Com. 175. Thus, where a lease for life or years is made by a person seised in fee, the reversion... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 sider
...England, bishops are right reverend, archbishops most reverend, and the lower clergy reverend REVERSION ; the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of the particular estate granted. The estate returns to the grantor or his heirs after the grant Is over.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 624 sider
...England, bishops are right reverend, archbishops most reverend, and the lower clergy reverend REVERSION ; the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession ufler the determination of the particular estate granted. The estate returns to the grantor or liis... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 692 sider
...REVERSIONS. 1854. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, now called the reversioner, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him ; it is also defined to be the return of the land to the grantor and his heirs, after the grant is... | |
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An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. 
