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Reversal of judgment. A judgment might have been reversed without a writ of error, for matters foreign to or dehors the record, i.e., not apparent upon the face of it, so that they could not be assigned for error in the superior courts, or by writ of error, which lay from all inferior jurisdictions to the King's Bench and thence to the Exchequer Chamber and the House on Lords. It was brought for mistakes as to matters of substance, appearing in the judgment or other parts of the record. See Steph. Com., 7th Edn., iii. 579; iv. 463. See now R.S.C. Ord. LVIII....
Reverse
Reverse, to undo, repeal, or make void....
Reverser
One who reverses...
Reverser
Reverser, a reversioner....
Reversion duty
Reversion duty. A duty imposed by the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, in certain cases on the determination of leases of more than twenty-one years. Repealed....
reversion
reversion [Anglo-French, from Middle French, from Latin reversio act of turning back, from revertere to turn back] 1 : the returning of an estate upon its termination to the former owner or to his or her successor in interest 2 a : the present vested interest in the residue of an estate that remains in its owner after the grant therefrom of a lesser estate (as a life estate) and that will commence in possession by operation of law upon termination of the lesser estate b : the future interest in property left in a grantor or his or her successor in interest that is not subject to a condition precedent compare possibility of reverter, remainder re·ver·sion·ary [-zhə-ner-ē] adj ...
Reversely
In a reverse manner on the other hand on the opposite...
Reversedly
In a reversed way...
Reverse
Turned backward having a contrary or opposite direction hence opposite or contrary in kind as the reverse order or method...
Reversal
Reversal, an appellate court's overturning of a lower court's decision, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1320....
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