Reversion

Noun

 * 1) The action of reverting something.
 * 2) The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
 * 3) The fact of being turned the reverse way.
 * 4) The action of turning something the reverse way.
 * 5)  The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
 * 6)  An estate which has been returned in this manner.
 * 7)  The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
 * 8) The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
 * 9) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
 * 10) A sum payable on a person's death.

Adjectives for Reversion
far-off; natural, certain; inevitable.

Thesaurus
about-face, about-turn, atavism, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backset, backsliding, backup, backward deviation, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, coheirship, coparcenary, copyhold, devolution, ectropion, entail, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, eversion, falling back, fee, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, improvement, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, instauration, introversion, intussusception, invagination, inversion, lapse, law of succession, lease, leasehold, legacy, legal estate, line of succession, mode of succession, paramount estate, particular estate, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, pronation, reactivation, reconstitution, reconversion, recrudescence, recurrence, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment, reformation, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, remainder, renewal, replacement, restitution, restoration, resupination, retroflexion, retroversion, return, reversal, reverse, reversing, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, setback, shifting trust, shifting use, succession, supination, swingaround, throwback, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transposal, transposition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, ultimogeniture, vested estate, volte-face

Etymology
From reversion: (modern réversion:), from  reversio:, from revertere:.

Translations

 * Dutch:


 * French:


 * Dutch: terugkeer, erfrecht

Derived terms

 * reversional
 * reversionary
 * reversioner
 * reversionist