Reversion
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. The The reversion arises by operation of law, and not by deed or will, and it is a vested interest or estate, and in this it differs from a "remainder," which can never be limited unless by either deed or devise.
2 Bl. Comm. 175; Cruise, Dig. tit. 17; Plowd. 151; 4 Kent, Comm. 349; 19 Viner, Abr. 217.
A reversion is said to be an incorporeal hereditament.
4 Kent, Comm. 354; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 37, 47, 63; 2 Bouv. Inst, note 1850.
See "Remainder."
See Remainder.