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law of Scotland. A debtor who makes a wadset and to whom the right of reversion is granted. … [Read more...] about REVERSOR

When unfair treatment occurs in the reverse of the usual pattern of discrimination, where members of a minority unfairly treat a member of a majority group, e.g. regarding employment discrimination, where a promotion for a deserving white person is given to a member of another minority group solely on the basis of race. … [Read more...] about REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

Lat. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor. Fleta, lib. 3, cc. 10, 12. Reversio terrse est tanquant terra re vertens in possessione donatori, sive haeredibus suis post donum nnitum. Go. Litt. 142. A reversion of land is, as it were, the return of the land to the possession of the donor or his heirs after the termination of the estate granted. … [Read more...] about REVERSIO

In real property law. A reversion is the residue of an estate left by operation of law in the grantor or his heirs, or in the heirs of a testator, commencing in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised. When a person has an interest in lands, and grants a portion of that interest, or, in other terms, a less estate than he has in himself, the … [Read more...] about REVERSION

A reconsideration; second view or examination; revision; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of the examination of a cause by an appellate court, and of a second investigation of a proposed public road by a jury of viewers. In equity practice. A Mil, in the nature of a writ of error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a decree … [Read more...] about REVIEW