Reversion

n.	1.	The act of returning, or coming back; return. After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. - Foxe.
	2.	That which reverts or returns; residue. The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics. - Fuller.
	3.	(Law) The returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
	4.	Hence, a right to future possession or enjoyment; succession. For even reversions are all begged before. - Dryden.
	5.	(Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
	6.	(Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism. Reversion of series (Alg.) the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t.

Noun	1.	reversion - (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
	2.	reversion - a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
	3.	reversion - a reappearance of an earlier characteristic Synonyms: atavism, throwback
	4.	reversion - turning in the opposite direction Synonyms: turnabout, turnaround, reversal, reverse
	5.	reversion - returning to a former state Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, regression
	6.	reversion - a failure to maintain a higher state Synonyms: lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting, backsliding, lapse

REVERSION, estates. The residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him; it is also defined to be the return of land to the grantor, and his heirs, after the grant is over. Co. Litt. 142, b.
     2. The reversion arises by operation of law, and not by deed or will, and it is a vested interest or estate, and in this it differs from a remainder, which can never be limited unless by either deed or devise. 2 Bl. Comm. 175; Cruise, Dig. tit. 17; Plowd. 151; 4 Kent, Comm. 349; 19 Vin. Ab. 217; 4 Com. Dig. 27; 7 Com. Dig. 289: 1 Bro. Civil Law, 213 Wood's Inst. 151 2 Lill. Ab. 483. A reversion is said to be an incorporeal hereditament. Vide 4 Kent, Com. 354. See, generally, 1 Hill. Ab. c. 52, p. 418; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1850, et seq.

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