 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...years afterwards. Church property is not embraced by the law of perpetuity.* An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. As, if there be a gift in tail, the reversion of the fee... | |
 | Great Britain, Leonard Shelford, Thomas Henry Carson - Land tenure - 1874 - 940 pages
...Bl. Com. 175; Co. Litt. 22 b; Plowd. 151; Watk. on Conv. 120.) An estate in rerersion is therefore the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted by him (Co. Litt. 22), or the returning of the land to the grantor or... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - Executions (Law) - 1876 - 906 pages
...remain to a determinate person after the particular estate has been spent. A reversionary estate is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some estate granted out by him ; the return of land to the grantor and his heirs after the grant is... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...act and operation of the law itself, and this is called a reversion. III. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the détermination of some particular estate granted out by him. (q) Sir Edward Coke (r) describes a reversion... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...call them executory devises, or devises hereafter to be executed. • III. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. As, if there be a gift in tail, the reversion of the fee... | |
 | John Indermaur, Charles Thwaites - Law - 1883 - 200 pages
...possession ; these are those already mentioned. Estates in expectancy may be either (1) a reversion which is the residue of an estate, left in the grantor to commence in possession, after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. The usual incidents to a reversion are fealty and rent.... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - Law - 1879 - 308 pages
...actual but only the legal possession. What is an estate in reversion, and what the usual incidents ? The residue of an estate left in the grantor to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted by him ; as, if there be a gift in tail, the reversion of the fee is... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 500 pages
...Dissenters, though some of them repudiate it. REVERSION, the residue of an estate left in the granter, to commence in possession after the determination of the particular estate granted by him. The estate returns to the granter or his heirs after the grant is over. REVERSION, in the doctrine... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...is called a reversion. III. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate Estates in reversion. left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. Sir Edward Coke describes a reversion to be the returning... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - Law - 1881 - 324 pages
...the grantor of a common-law estate in it, after the determination of the estate. The residue of the estate, left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out of it by him. Review, v. Bill, I. 1C ; Commission, 9. Revivor. v.... | |
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An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. 
