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revertible (1293)

revertible (1293)

revertable,  reverteble  
  FEW:  revertere *10,358b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  revertir (revertible)  DMF: TLF: OED:  revertible adj.  MED:  revertible adj.  DMLBS:  revertibilis 2827a

a.

1able to return, revert
( c.1378; MS: s.xivex )  Dont sanz mercy puny serra Du mort dont nuls est revertible  GOWER Mirour 5772
2lawrevertible, able to be returned to the original grantor or his representative
( 1293 )  aver graunté [...] a mosire Henri de Perci la seignurie et les services [...] a lui et a les heirs de son corps engendrez, et a moy revertables si saunz heire de son corps deive  Percy Ch 131
( 1340 )  Il suppose ceste terre revertible a luy  YBB 14-15 Ed III 137
( 1389-90 )  terre put estre doné a un home en fee simple et la terre est reverteble al donour  YBB 13 Rich II 25
( 1404 )  qe douns ou grauntz [...] soient revertiblez au Roy  Rot Parl1 iii 548
( c.1420 )  la est un cas en le quelle fee simple fuit revertible  Readings i lxix

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See also:

revertir  revertatur 
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