 | Burnett, Howard D. - Bar examinations - 1922 - 438 pages
...be a personal estate, or chattel. Blackstone's Comm., Vol II, p. 386. (b) 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. Sir Edward Coke describes a reversion to be the returning... | |
 | California, James Manford Kerr - Criminal law - 1923 - 680 pages
...same time and by same conveyance. — (Tiedeman.) 275 Q.— What is reversion? A. — 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. — (Blackkstone.) 276 Q. — Could remainders commence... | |
 | Olin W. Smith - Bar examinations - 1928 - 388 pages
...the same time and by the same conveyance. (Tiedeman.) Ques. What is a reversion ? Ans. 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. (Blackstone.) Ques. What fiction was invented to free fee-tails?... | |
 | William Burge - Colonies - 1914 - 1174 pages
...statute law. Reversion. — Of those allowed by the common law is an estate in 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 (e). Sir Edward Coke (/) describes a reversion to be the... | |
 | United States. Farm Security Administration - Detroit (Mich.) - 1937 - 882 pages
...which, though inheritable, is subject to conditions of collateral determination." 8/ 7/ Reversion means "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 return of land to the grantor and his heirs after the... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 996 pages
...could not dispose of a part of the estate and leave a part undisposed of. "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. It is a present vested estate, although to take effect in... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1034 pages
...40 W. Va. 758, 23 SE C50 ; Blount v. Walker, 31 S. С. 13, 9 SE 804. [5] A reversion is defined as the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. It Is also described as the returning of land to the grantor,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 2014 - 784 pages
...trusts of them, otherwise than by writing. — \_Hargr. in n. Co. Lytt. 48. «.] (g) A 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. [BeDefinition of a reversion. 73 60 But if a man let lands... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1835 - 316 pages
...an estate for life or lives," as required by the constitution. A reversion is denned in law to be, " the residue of an estate left in the grantor to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him." Now the corporation becomes entitled to the property, either... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1204 pages
...according to the provisions of this chapter." Blackstone (book 4, p. 175) says: "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. Sir Edward Coke describes a reversion to be the returning... | |
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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. 
