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Casu proviso

where a tenant in dower alienated in fee, or for life, etc., and it lay for him in reversion against the alienee, Fitz. N. B. 207. Abolished.

Casu consimill

for life, alienated in fee, or in tail, or for another's life, and was brought by him in reversion against the party to whom such tenant so alienated to his prejudice, and in the tenant's lifetime, Termes

Assignment

will amount to an assignment. Assignment by Lessor or Lessee, Effect of. A lessor, notwithstanding assignment of his reversion, continues liable to his lessee on covenants running with the land, Stuart v. Joy, 1904 (1) KB 362,

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Incident

thing necessarily depending upon, appertaining to, or following another that is more worthy-as rent is incident to a reversion, and as a Court-baron is incident to a manor.

Assent of personal representatives

Vict. c. 65) real estate passed to the heir-at-law of the deceased or to the person entitled in reversion or remainder subject to the personal representatives' legal or equitable powers of sale (if any) and the (English)

Reversioner

One who has a reversion or who is entitled to lands or tenements after a particular estate granted is terminated

Escheat

The falling back or reversion of lands by some casualty or accident to the lord of the fee in consequence of the extinction

Epanody

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition

worthier title

property followed by a future estate to his or her heirs, the conveyance is deemed to create a reversion in the grantor rather than a remainder, so that the heirs take by descent and receive a superior

reversioner

reversioner : one that has or is entitled to a reversion ;broadly : someone having a vested right to

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