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Definition of Revested
1. revest [v] - See also: revest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revested
Literary usage of Revested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Held, when Spring and Cole rescinded the contract between them, the property in
the rum was revested in Spring, wholly discharged from any supposed lien on ..."
2. The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States by Daniel Moreau Barringer, John Stokes Adams (1911)
"Nevertheless. when the thing sought to be partitioned has l;een in effect sold,
as in thin case, though subject to become revested for breach of a condition ..."
3. A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy by John Mews, Robert Alexander Fisher, Cecil Maurice Chapman, Harry Hadden Wickes Sparham, Arthur Horatio Todd (1884)
"... 33 LT 553 ; 24 Vf. B. 182—CA Held, also, that even if the property revested
in the debtor on the annulment of the bankruptcy, it revested in him subject ..."
4. Ireland in 1868, the Battle-field for English Party Strife: Its Grievances by Gerald Fitzgibbon (1868)
"... independently of their congregations, should be confiscated and revested in
the Crown for some other undefined uses—that the Protestant congregations, ..."
5. Ireland in 1868, the Battle-field for English Party Strife: Its Grievances by Gerald Fitzgibbon (1868)
"... independently of their congregations, should be confiscated and revested in
the Crown for some other undefined uses—that the Protestant congregations, ..."
6. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts' Gazette by William S. Hein & Company (1858)
"1] ; and that immediately after that payment, the property revested in the Ottawa
and Prescott Railway Company, and so remained vested, and was liable to ..."
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