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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The propritor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) ■ of his lands, and who has a right, on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell, Diet. REVERSIO (Law Lat. from reverti, to return).

In old English law

The returning of land to the donor. Fleta, lib.

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