reversion — A future estate in either real or personal property arising by operation of law to take effect in possession in favor of a grantor, lessor, or transferor, or his heirs, distributees, devisees, or legatees, after the termination of a prior… … Ballentine's law dictionary
inheritance — Synonyms and related words: Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birth,… … Moby Thesaurus
reversion — Synonyms and related words: 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,… … Moby Thesaurus
reversion — n. 1. Succession, inheritance. 2. Atavism … New dictionary of synonyms
possession — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of owning or the thing owned Nouns 1. possession, ownership; proprietorship, lordship, fee, seigniorage, seigniory; empire, dominion (see authority); interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim,… … English dictionary for students
Possession — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Possession >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 possession possession seizin seisin Sgm: N 1 ownership ownership &c. 780 Sgm: N 1 occupancy occupancy Sgm: N 1 hold hold holding Sgm … English dictionary for students
de vasto — /diy vasstow/ Writ of waste. Old English writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed… … Black's law dictionary
de vasto — /diy vasstow/ Writ of waste. Old English writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed… … Black's law dictionary
heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… … Universalium
Mutation — For other uses, see Mutation (disambiguation). Part of the Biology series on Evolution … Wikipedia
Quia Emptores — (medieval Latin for because the buyers , the incipit of the document) was a statute passed by Edward I of England in 1290 that prevented tenants from alienating their lands to others by subinfeudation. Quia Emptores, along with its companion… … Wikipedia
