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Definition of Reversioners
1. reversioner [n] - See also: reversioner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reversioners
Literary usage of Reversioners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Relating to the Hindu Widow by Trailokyanath Mitra (1881)
"LECTURE X. THE RIGHTS OF THE reversioners. ... —reversioners defined—Application
to Hindu law not accurate—On the widow's death the heirs of the last male ..."
2. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"Expectant heirs, reversioners, and holders of other expectant interests stand in a
... In the first place, heirs, reversioners, and other expectants, ..."
3. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Expectant heirs, remainder-men and reversioners were looked upon by the English
... reversioners, by Thos. H. Breeze, 13 8 Western Railroad Corporation v. ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"Contracts affecting interests in expectancy, as those with heirs, reversioners,
and the like, are jealously watched by courts of equity for two reasons ..."
5. The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered by George Tucker Bispham (1893)
"Bargains by reversioners and expectant heirs. subject-matter; ex turpi causa non
oritur actio. 225. Gifts in restraint of marriage; rule of the Roman Law. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads by Edward Lillie Pierce (1881)
"reversioners may maintain an action for injuries to real estate which are permanent
in their nature.3 The party in possession has a right of action for an ..."
7. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Action of Ejectment and by George William Warvelle (1905)
"Continued—Remaindermen and reversioners.—• The observations of the foregoing
paragraph have reference to injunctions sought by rival claimants to the title ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield (1888)
"reversioners and mortgagees.—One who has a fixed reversionary interest in property
has a right to sue for any injury to such property which will depreciate ..."
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