单词 | reversionable |
释义 | † reversionableadj. Obsolete. Of property, an estate, etc.: subject to the right of reversion. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [adjective] > admitting of reversion revertible1474 reversionable1681 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 191 For it was proposed, that whatsoever Security we were to receive should be both Conditional and Reversionable. 1757 W. Maitland Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. II. 666 Those who bought by the new inventions (as they are called) of charter and seisin, reversionable estates, must restore them to their antient possessors, they fulfilling the forms of reversion. 1802 Times 1 Mar. 3/3 Reversionable property. 1842 United Presbyterian Mag. Jan. 42 Pension to General Havelock.—L.1000 a-year has been voted, and it is intended to make it reversionable to another life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1681 |
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