A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor who has conveyed, or in the heirs of the devisor who has devised a particular estate less than his own, and which residue returns to his or their possession on the expiration of the particular estate.
CREDIT(S)
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1351, ch. 854, § 1019.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 45-209.
1973 Ed., § 45-809.