单词 | in reversion |
释义 | > as lemmasin reversion Phrases in reversion. a. Conditional upon the expiry of a grant or the death of a person. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [phrase] in reversion1426 1426 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1837) IV. 249 (MED) Þe seide lorde shall yeve and graunte..to þe seide John and Anne in demene, reuersion, possession, and in seruice, þe Maner of Radon. 1581 T. Lupton 2nd Pt. Too Good to be True sig. X.iii He wente to the Abbot, to whom the same did belong, and desired to take ye same Farme in reuersion of him and the Couent. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Expectative Benefices conferez en expectative, in reversion, or expectance. 1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Civv That there be no Leases let in revertion but one year before the ould Lease be expired. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3296/4 Part being in present possession, and the other in Reversion after the death of a Joyntress. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Covine As, if a Tenant for Life conspire with another that this other shall recover the Land which the Tenant holds in prejudice of him in reversion. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 318/1 An annuity is said to be in reversion, when the purchaser..does not immediately enter upon possession. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 430/1 A contract to pay 100l. at the death of a given individual is 100l. in reversion to the executors of that individual. 1898 J. M. Lightwood in Encycl. Laws Eng. X. 237 In possession: as applied to an estate or interest, these words usually mean that the right is immediate, and not in reversion, remainder, or expectancy. 1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 72 Estate in Reversion, the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the termination of some particular estate granted out by him. 1983 B. A. K. Rider Insider Trading iv. 250 An interest in shares or debentures in reversion or remainder is disregarded so long as someone is entitled to receive..income from trust property comprising shares or debentures. b. Conditional upon realizing a right of succession to an office, the possession of something, etc. Cf. sense 3. ΚΠ 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 20 (title) An act to embarre feined recoueries of landes, wherin the kinges maiestie is in reuercion. 1625 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 502 Mr. Gibson..who had in reversion the master-gunnership of England. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 408 A Cat, you know, is said to have nine Lives, that is eight in Reversion and one in Possession. 1709 J. Swift Vindic. I. Bickerstaff 8 Time..gives them a Lease in Reversion, to continue their Works after their Death. 1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 The prospect of too good a Fortune in reversion when I married her. 1801 Lusignan III. 44 Thinking she would be sooner reconciled to an event which had actually taken place..than to one in reversion. 1858 T. De Quincey Greece under Romans (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VIII. 317 It is hardly ‘in the dice’ that any downright novelty of fact should remain in reversion for this nineteenth century. 1930 Michigan Law Rev. 28 903 A judicial office could not be granted in reversion because though never so fit, the grantee might become unfit before the grant was to take effect. 1995 Rev. Eng. Stud. 46 374 George Buc was knighted, and granted the office of Master of the Revels in reversion, in 1603. < as lemmas |
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