Reversioner

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reversioner \Re*ver"sion*er\, n. (Law)
     One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or
     tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.
     --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reversioner
       n : (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REVERSIONER, estates. One entitled to a reversion.
       2. Although not in actual possession, the reversioner having a vested 
  interest in the reversion, is entitled to his action for an injury done to 
  the inheritance. 4 Burr. 2141. The reversioner is entitled to the rent, and 
  this important incident passes with a grant or assignment of the reversion. 
  It is not inseparable from it, and may be severed and excepted out of the 
  grant by special words. Co. Litt. 143, a, 151, a, b Cruise, Digest, t. 17, 
  s. 19.