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Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) 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..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

Reverter :: Reverter (n.) Reversion.

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession..

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form..

Reversionary :: Reversionary (n.) That which is to be received in reversion.

Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

Reversioner :: Reversioner (n.) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The returning of an esttate 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..

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

Reversionary :: Reversionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right..

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or retur.

Epanody :: Epanody (n.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..

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