单词 | reverture |
释义 | reverturen. Now rare. Reversion; return. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > return towards point of departure returna1393 returning?c1400 recoursec1405 regress1478 reverture1495 retraira1500 regression1598 reflexa1613 recursion1616 revolture1633 retroition1651 hark back1798 recover1818 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] reversionc1436 reverter1491 reverture1495 reverting1540 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §38. m. 23 When the seid descent, remaynder and reverture shall mowe fall or growe. a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 14 I slepe now in molde, as it is naturall That erth vnto erth hath his reuerture. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 371 From this present Reuerture of the English Diademe to the next Innouation. a1626 F. Bacon Learned Reading Statute of Uses (1642) 39 The very Letter of the Statute doth take notice of a difference betweene an Use in Remainder, and an Use in Reverture. 1904 W. H. Taft Let. 9 Mar. in Transferring Certain Prop. to Columbia Mil. Acad. (U.S. House of Representatives No. 2326, 58th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 2 I recommend that it [sc. the bill] be amended so as to require its use for military purposes and providing for reverture to the United States when it shall cease to be used for that purpose. 1954 Laws of State of Mississippi ccxc. 358 The conveyance to contain a reverture clause in event a hospital is not constructed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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