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remainder

a life estate) created at the same time and by the same instrument compare future interest at interest, reversion charitable remainder : a remainder in favor of a charity contingent remainder : a remainder that is to

possibility of reverter

reverts to the grantor upon the occurrence of a particular event or fulfillment of a particular condition compare reversion

intrusion

stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before the person who holds it in remainder or reversion has taken possession b : the act of wrongfully entering upon, seizing, or taking possession of the property

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fee simple

conditional : a fee granted to an individual and to that individual's descendants which is subject to a reversion or remainder if the grantee has no lineal descendants but which becomes a fee simple absolute and freely

fee

a fee which is granted to an individual and to that individual's descendants, which is subject to a reversion or a remainder if a tenant in tail dies with no lineal descendants, and which is not freely

Pretensed right

land, unless the vendor had received the profits, or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value

Feu, or few

feu, not on lease, so that the landlord granting land for building has not, as in England, a reversion, but grants the land in perpetuity in consideration of a perpetual annual payment. As to the redemption and

revert

McGovern, Jr. et al."] 2 : to return to the grantor or his or her heirs as a reversion re·vert·ible [-vər-tə-bəl] adj

Intentione

after the death of a tenant in dower or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder, Fitz. N.B. 203.

Service matter

Government, as respects, (i) Remuneration (includ-ing allowances), pension and other retirement benefits; (ii) tenure including confirmation, senio-rity, promotion, reversion, premature retirement and superannuation; (iii) leave of any kind; (iv) disciplinary matters; or (v) any other matter whatsoever.

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