society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > revert to			[verb (transitive)]		 > grant one's reversion to one who has estate (2)		
Law. transitive. To give up (an estate) to one who has it in reversion or remainder; spec. to give up (a copyhold estate) to the lord of the…
transitive. To transfer (a reversion: see reversion, n.1 1) to a person, especially one already holding the estate. Now historical.