Definition of Reverter

1. n. One who, or that which, reverts.

Definition of Reverter

1. Noun. One who, or that which, reverts. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) The reversion of ownership of an estate in land to the original grantor pursuant to the occurrence of a condition set forth in the original grant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reverter

1. one that reverts [n -S] - See also: reverts

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverter

reversions
reversis
reversive
reverso
reversos
revert
revert war
revertability
revertable
revertant
revertants
reverted
revertee
revertees
revertent
reverter (current term)
reverters
revertible
reverting
revertive
reverts
revery
reves
revest
revested
revestiaries
revestiary
revesting
revestries
revestry

Literary usage of Reverter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readings in the Law of Real Property: An Elementary Collection of by George Washington Kirchwey (1900)
"Whether this right of the grantor depended on an estate for life, or in fee, it was of the same nature, and indifferently called his reverter or Escheat; ..."

2. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"RIGHTS OF reverter. Rights of reverter include the possibility of reverter ... Possibilities of reverter. Reference has already been made to the right known ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Domicil, National, Quasi-national, and Municipal by Michael William Jacobs (1887)
"reverter will not be presumed. Burden of Proof upon him alleging reverter. — But the rule that the person who asserts a change of domicil must prove it, ..."

4. The Law of Real Property: Chiefly in Relation to Conveyance by Henry William Challis (1887)
"Possibility of reverter. reverter and reversion are synonymous terms, denoting an estate vested in interest though not in possession; but the word reverter ..."

5. The Law of Real Property: Chiefly in Relation to Conveyancing by Henry William Challis (1892)
"reverter and reversion are synonymous terms, denoting an estate vested in interest though not in possession; but the word reverter is sometimes loosely used ..."

6. A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"RIGHTS or reverter. Rights of reverter include the possibility of reverter ... Possibilities of reverter. Reference has already been made to the right known ..."

7. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"POSSIBILITIES OF reverter. § 300. ... After a fee, there could be no remainder; but there was a so-called possibility of reverter to the ..."

8. An Essay in a Course of Lectures on Abstracts of Title: To Facilitate the by Richard Preston (1818)
"The rule is assumed to be, that while a contingent remainder in fee is capable of effect, the grantor has a mere possibility of reverter. ..."

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