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Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A returning; that which returns; the returning of land into the possession of a donor, or his heirs, after the gift is ended; the returning of an estate to the original owner, or his heirs, after a limited estate carved out of it, and conveyed by him, has determined; the residue of an estate left in a grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out of it In old English law. The returning of a feud to the crown, or of a fee to the lord who granted it