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Regrant

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To grant again property which has come back to the grantor by operation of law since his prior grant.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the English law of real property, when, after a person has made a grant, the property granted comes back to him, (e. p., by escheat or forfeiture,) and he grants it again, he is said to regrant it. The phrase is chiefly used in the law of copyholds.