Reversion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Landlord and tenant
less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion. Leases or tenancies
error
and definite conviction that a mistake has been made NOTE: A clear error may or may not warrant reversal. fundamental error : plain error in this entry used esp. in criminal cases harmless error : an error
Expectant heir
interfere between lender and borrower in these cases, and to set aside as 'unconscionable bargains' those mortgages of reversionary interests or other contracts of sale or loan in which the distress of the expectant heir is taken
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Constructive notice
stipulation to the contrary, an intended lessee was not entitled to call for the title to the freehold reversion upon a contract for the lease, a lessee who had omitted to make the special stipulation and was
Apportionment
& 18 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 20, by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and neither the reversioner nor the lessee is bound unless he consents or is a party to the proceedings, see Bliss v.
Lease
has greater interest in the property. The person granting is called the lessor, who is possessed of the reversion (as to a reversion being essential to a lease, see 1 Platt on Lease, pp. 9 et seq.);
Uses
seised to the use. (2) A cestui que use in esse. (3) A use in esse in possession, reversion, or remainder. (4) Every species of realty, except copyholds, whether corporeal or incorporeal, in possession, reversion, or remainder,
interest
an equitable interest in the debtor's assets] executory interest : a future interest other than a remainder or reversion that may take effect upon the divesting of a prior interest or one created simultaneously NOTE: Unlike a
escheat
escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine past participle of escheoir to fall (to), befall,
Intrusion
Intrusion, the entry of a stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before him in reversion or remainder. Where a tenant for life dies seized of certain lands or tenements, and a stranger enter
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