reversioner

[ ri-vur-zhuh-ner, -shuh- ]

noun

, Law.

1. a person who possesses a reversion.

reversioner

/ rɪˈvɜːʃənə /

noun

1. property law a person entitled to an estate in reversion Compare remainderman

Word History and Origins

Origin of reversioner¹

First recorded in 1605–15; reversion + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Rumour has long since pointed to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh as the ultimate reversioner.

From Project Gutenberg

Here was an acre spread with the delicate fronds, and there a ragged mile, and yonder but shreds and patches—yet all of magic gold, flinging the sunlight back, lighting the shadows, making the humblest ride too rich for kings to trample till the green roofs and walls looked dull beside it, and the ephemeral magnificence took Memory by the throat and wrung a lease of life from that Reversioner.

From Project Gutenberg

A reversioner shall be received in court to defend his right when a tenant for a term of life, tenant in dower, or by the Law of England, or in Tail after Possibility of Issue extinct are sued in court for the land, so as to prevent collusion by the demandants.

From Project Gutenberg

It differs from intrusion, which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a tenant for life, to the prejudice of the reversioner, or remainder man; and from disseisin, which is the forcible or fraudulent expulsion of a person seised of the freehold.

From Project Gutenberg

You must see, my dear Sir, with such rumours, possibly about to get afloat, and such persons about to appear, as this James Dutton, that matters are really growing critical, and there's no lack of able solicitors who would on speculation, undertake a suit upon less evidence, perhaps, than may be forthcoming, to upset your title, under the will, through Mrs. Dorcas Brandon Lake—your joint title—in favour of the reversioner.'

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