revertibilityn.
/rᵻˌvəːtᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /rəˌvərdəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /riˌvərdəˈbɪlᵻdi/ The quality or fact of being revertible.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] > liability to
reversibility1701
revertibility?1790
?1790 Kilner's Acct. Pythagoras's School 47 A proviso of revertibility to the said college in case of disturbance in their new possession.
1792 J. White tr. G.-H. de R. de Mirabeau Speeches I. 228 There are few foundations which have the clause of revertibility.
1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. i. viii. 295 [His] dominions had been seized without any pretext, except that of their probable revertibility to the chief of the empire in quality of an imperial fief.
1868 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 48 284 The European doctrine of ‘nemo potest exuere patriam’.. inculcates the revertibility of allegiance upon resumption of the domicile of the birth.
1914 C. Morris 100 Years Confl. between Nations of Europe ix. 165 Austria..had placed an archduke on the throne of Tuscany, stipulated the revertibility to the imperial crown of the duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla.
2000 B. C. Lamb Applied Genetics vii. 111 Revertibility can also be important in evolution and adaptation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.?1790