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reverter

reverter [Anglo-French, from reverter to return, from Old French revertir to return, revert, from Latin revertere to turn back] 1 : reversion 2 : possibility of reverter NOTE: Although reversion and possibility of reverter or reverter are sometimes used synonymously, many authorities disapprove such use. ...

Revertible

Capable of or admitting of reverting or being reverted as a revertible estate...

possibility of reverter

possibility of reverter :a future interest in property that is retained by the grantor of a conditional fee or determinable fee and by which property reverts to the grantor upon the occurrence of a particular event or fulfillment of a particular condition compare reversion ...

Revertive

Reverting or tending to revert returning...

revert

revert 1 : to come or go back (as to a former status or state) [if the donee of a general power fails to exercise it…the appointive assets to the donor's estate "W. M. 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 ...

Reverter

One who or that which reverts...

Reverter

Reverter, reversion...

Escheat

Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus h'res upon the failure, natural or legal, of the intestate tenant's family.Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown to 'bona vacantia' now includes real property under (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 46. See BONA VACAN-TIA.The title of the Crown was ascertained by inquiry regulated by rules under the (English) Escheat Procedure Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 53), which repealed, as practically inoperative, the numerous statutes from 29 Edw. 1, by which officers called 'escheators' were authorized to hold such inquiries.If differed from a forfeiture [now abolished for treason or felony by the (Engli...

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de (13 Edw. 1, c. 1, A.D. 1285), otherwise called Westminster the Second. At the date of this statute a gift to a man and the heirs of his body, provided that if he had no heirs the lands should revert, was construed to give the donee a conditional fee, which enabled him, after issue begotten, to alien the land, and thereby to disinherit the issue and to deprive the donor of his right of reverter. This interpretation is declared by this statute to be 'contrary to the minds of the giver, and the form impressed in the gift': wherefore it is ordained that the 'will of the giver, according to the form in the deed of gift manifestly expressed, be henceforth observed; so that they, to whom the land is given under such condition, shall have no power to alien the land so given, but that it shall remain unto the issue of them to whom it is given after their death, or shall revert to the giver or his heirs if issue fail, or there is no issue at all . . . And if a f...

escheat

escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine past participle of escheoir to fall (to), befall, ultimately from Latin ex- out + cadere to fall] 1 : escheated property 2 : the reversion of property to the state upon the death of the owner when there are no heirs vt : to cause to revert by escheat vi : to revert by escheat es·cheat·able adj ...

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