reversion

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
• a failure to maintain a higher state
• returning to a former state
• turning in the opposite direction
• (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
• (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
• The act of returning, or coming back
• That which reverts or returns
• The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated
• Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment
• A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person
• A return towards some ancestral type or character

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