2. Verb. (third-person singular of revert) ¹
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Definition of Reverts
1. revert [v] - See also: revert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reverts
Literary usage of Reverts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1877)
"The native domicile easily reverts. The domicile of origin easily reverts, and
it requires fewer circumstances to constitute domicile in a native subject or ..."
2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"The native The native character easily reverts, and it requires easily reverts,
fewer circumstances to constitute domicile, in the case of a native subject, ..."
3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1873)
"... even in cases where the statute provides for the taking of the fee, upon the
discontinuance of the public use, the laud reverts to the former owner.1' ..."
4. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"And now, far removed from the loved habitation, The tear of regret will intrusively
swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the ..."
5. Halleck's International Law, Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States by Henry Wager Halleck (1893)
"The native national character, lost, or suspended by Native a foreign domicil,
easily reverts.2 The adventitious character er imposed by domicil ceases with ..."
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