Definitions For Reversion

noun

• A failure to maintain a higher state
• Returning to a former state
• Turning in the opposite direction
• A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
• (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
• (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
• An act or process of returning to an earlier condition or state
• The returning of property to a former owner or to a person who received the right to it when the former owner died