reversion

Meaning

Noun

• The action of reverting something.
• The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
• The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• The action of turning something the reverse way.
• The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• A sum payable on a person's death.
• The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.

Origin

• Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō. Surface analysis revert + -sion.