reversion

reversion
Synonyms and related words:
about-face, about-turn, atavism, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backset, backsliding, backup, backward deviation, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, coheirship, coparcenary, copyhold, devolution, ectropion, entail, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, eversion, falling back, fee, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, improvement, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, instauration, introversion, intussusception, invagination, inversion, lapse, law of succession, lease, leasehold, legacy, legal estate, line of succession, mode of succession, paramount estate, particular estate, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, pronation, reactivation, reconstitution, reconversion, recrudescence, recurrence, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment, reformation, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, remainder, renewal, replacement, restitution, restoration, resupination, retroflexion, retroversion, return, reversal, reverse, reversing, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, setback, shifting trust, shifting use, succession, supination, swingaround, throwback, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transposal, transposition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, ultimogeniture, vested estate, volte-face

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  • réversion — [ revɛrsjɔ̃ ] n. f. • revercioun 1304; lat. reversio, de revertere 1 ♦ Dr. Droit de retour. Pension de réversion. (Parfois prononcé [ rəvɛrsjɔ̃ ] par infl. de reverser.) 2 ♦ Biol. Changement dans l A. D. N. qui inverse une altération causée par… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • reversion — re·ver·sion /ri vər zhən/ n [Anglo French, from Middle French, from Latin reversio act of turning back, from revertere to turn back] 1: the returning of an estate upon its termination to the former owner or to his or her successor in interest 2 a …   Law dictionary

  • Reversion — may refer to:*Reversion (law) *Reversion (software development) *Re version, the re release of an existing television programmes or film. *Series reversion, in mathematics *Reversion, in evolutionary biology it is the return of a character to one …   Wikipedia

  • reversion — re‧ver‧sion [rɪˈvɜːʆn ǁ rɪˈvɜːrʒn] noun [uncountable] LAW the return of property, for example at the end of a period of time when someone else has had the right to use it: • the reversion of Hong Kong to China * * * reversion UK US /rɪˈvɜːʃən/… …   Financial and business terms

  • reversion — 1 return, recurrence, recrudescence (see under RETURN vb) 2 Reversion, atavism, throwback are comparable when they mean return to an ancestral type or an instance of such return. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are evident… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Reversion — Re*ver sion (r[ e]*v[ e]r sh[u^]n), n. [F. r[ e]version, L. reversio a turning back. See {Revert}.] 1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • reversion — or estate in reversion /(asteyt in) ravarzhan/ A future interest under which a grantor retains a present right to a future interest in property that the grantor conveys to another; usually the residue of a life estate. The residue of an estate… …   Black's law dictionary

  • reversion — Reversion. s. f. v. Terme de pratique & de Jurisprudence, formé du verbe Revertir, qui n est point en usage. Retour, réünion d un fief mouvant au fief dominant, dont il avoit esté détaché. Les appanages se donnent à charge de reversion faute d… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • reversion — (n.) early 15c., from O.Fr. reversion, from L. reversionem (nom. reversio), noun of action from pp. stem of revertere (see REVERT (Cf. revert)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • reversión — sustantivo femenino 1. Uso/registro: elevado. Acción y resultado de revertir: La reversión de los inmuebles a los antiguos propietarios es un acto de justicia. Sinónimo: retorno …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • reversion — reversion. См. реверсная мутация. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

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