Skip to content

Reversible - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Accessorium non ducit, sed sequitur suum principale

lead, but follows its principal. Rent is incident to the reversion, and by a grant of the reversion the rent will

Attornment

ss. 9, 10, all grants and conveyances of lands, rents, reversions, etc., are good without the attornment of the tenants, but

escheat

escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Justices

given term, of the yearly value of 100l., or a reversion or remainder expectant upon such lease as in the Act

Feu, or few

granting land for building has not, as in England, a reversion, but grants the land in perpetuity in consideration of a

False Verdict

7, c. 24, at his election, for the purpose of reversing the judgment and punishing the jury for their verdict; but

Future estates

estates, expectancies, which are, at Common Law, of two kinds: reversions and remainders. If in land, these are now referred to

Hereditaments

heritable rights not necessarily connected with land, such as offices. Reversions, remainders, and executory interests and conditions have usually been classed

Incident

another that is more worthy-as rent is incident to a reversion, and as a Court-baron is incident to a manor.

Intentione

or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder, Fitz. N.B. 203.

  • Last »

Try the research workspace — 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial