reversion-réversion: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is reversion? reversion is réversion

What is réversion?

  • A return to a former condition, belief, or interest.
  • A turning away or in the opposite direction; a reversal.
  • Genetics A return to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation.
  • Law The return of an estate to the grantor or to the grantor's heirs or successor after the grant has expired.
  • Law The estate thus returned.
  • Law The right to succeed to an estate.

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