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Reversionary

adjective

Of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion). "Reversionary interest"

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"Reversionary" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rome, or otherwise, escaped being involved in that great man's fate, he would at all events have been thrown upon the instant necessity of defending his supreme station by arms. To have left it unasserted, when once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title, would have been deliberately to resign it. This would have been a confession of weakness liable to no disguise, and ruinous to any subsequent pretensions. Yet, without preparation of means, with no development ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... which thereupon leased them out to a private syndicate, under a manager of the syndicate's choosing. The municipality assumes no more direct responsibility for the due devotion of the Stadt-Theater to dramatic art than is implied in its retention of reversionary rights of ownership. The third theatre, the Volks-Theater, illustrates the minimum share that a municipality may take in promoting theatrical enterprise, while guaranteeing ...

— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... the poor vicar, with that hectic in his cheek that came with agitation, 'I never fancied that my reversionary interest ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Words linked to "Reversionary" : reversion, jurisprudence, law, reversionary annuity