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The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.

ies in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

That which falls to one; a reversion or return To make me great by others' loss is bad escheat. Spenser.

ssion of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.

the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.

. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay. -- To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to…

particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

e by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.

ands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.