noun that which reverts or returns; residue.
2. reversion ·noun the act of returning, or coming back; return.
3. reversion ·noun a return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
4. reversion ·noun hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
5. reversion ·noun 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.
6. reversion ·noun the returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.