| 单词 | reversionary heir |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreversionary heir 2. Of a person: entitled to the reversion of something. Chiefly in reversionary heir. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > relating to inheritance > types of heir heir apparentc1375 supposititious1625 reversional1663 reversionary1733 1733 Hist. Reg. No. 71. 175 Great Injury and Injustice have in numerous Instances been done to Orphans, and the Reversionary Heirs of these Estates. 1739 R. Coope Let. South-Sea Company Ded. sig. A2 Many Injuries having been done in various Instances..to the Reversionary Heirs of those Estates. 1776 E. Griffith Story Lady Juliana Harley II. lxii. 149 Luckily for me there is a reversionary heir to the other ten, and I could not bestow it on my vile husband. 1804 W. H. Marshall Landed Prop. Eng. 3 Conventional Rents are acknowledgments reserved, by a proprietor of lands which he has thus temporarily sold—that he may have the right of convening the tenants, annually or otherwise, to his court or audit; to acknowledge him as..the reversionary proprietor, etc. 1889 Spectator 9 Nov. The maritime Powers cannot settle..who shall be reversionary heir to the gateway of the Black Sea. 1906 Citator Aug. 590 The presumptive reversionary heirs may sue to restrain a widow from committing waste. 1999 J. Casey Early Mod. Spain ix. 197 The chief consideration seems to have been that he was reversionary heir to this uncle's estate. < as lemmas |
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