Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being returned to a previous owner or their heirs: In legal contexts, "revertible" describes property or rights that are subject to being returned to the original owner or that owner's legal successors under specific conditions.
   • Capable of reverting to a former state or type: In biological or general contexts, it describes something that has the potential to go back to an earlier condition or ancestral form.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Legal):

  • The estate was granted under a revertible title, meaning it would return to the crown upon the tenant's death.
  • The contract included a revertible clause ensuring the land would go back to the seller if the payments were not completed.

• Adjective (Biological/General):

  • Some hybrid plant strains are not revertible to their original wild types.
  • The chemical change was found to be revertible under certain temperature conditions.

Advanced Usage

• "revertible interest": A legal term for a right in property that will return to the grantor or their heirs in the future.

  • He held only a life estate, while the family retained a revertible interest.

• In Trust Law: Property may be held in a trust with a revertible provision for the settlor's descendants.

  • The assets were placed in a revertible trust for the grandchildren.

Variants and Related Words

• Revert (verb): To return to a previous state, practice, or owner.

  • The property will revert to the state if unused.

• Reversion (noun): The right, especially of the original owner or their heirs, to possess or succeed to property upon the termination of a grant or estate.

  • The lease agreement detailed the terms of reversion.

• Reversible (adjective): Capable of being reversed or turned the other way. (Note: This is a different concept, often related to physical objects or processes, not legal return).

  • The jacket is reversible, so you can wear it inside out.

Synonyms

• Returnable: Capable of being given or sent back.
• Restorable: Capable of being brought back to an original condition.

Antonyms

• Irreversible: Not able to be undone or altered.
• Irrevocable: Not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered.

Adjective

1. to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs