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Definition of Revests
1. revest [v] - See also: revest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revests
Literary usage of Revests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"condition avoids A condition avoids the estate to which it is annexed, and revests
it in the revests the original estate of the grantor or lessor so far as ..."
2. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"condition avoids A condition avoids the estate to which it is annexed, and revests
it in the revests the original estate of the grantor or lessor ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"Or, against a stranger for a trespass done during the disseisin ; for by reentry
he revests the possession in himself ab ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... his \^S~v^J w'fe shall not be endowed ; for though the use revests without 6 Co.
34. entry, yet by the 27 H. VIII. the use is incorporated with the land ..."
5. Digest of the Lawyers' Reports, Annotated: (cited "L. R. A.") Volumes I. to (1894)
"... and retains no title •which he can assert in any action or proceeding; and
payment to the assignee revests all title in the mortgagor. Barnes v. ..."
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