Middle English Dictionary Entry
revertible adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | revertible adj. |
| Etymology | AL revertibilis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law Of an estate: returnable to the king or his heir.
Associated quotations
- (1472-5) RParl.6.162b : They..shall..mowe make estate or estates of the same Maners, Londes, and Tenementes..to other persones..the same estate so to be made, to stond goode and effectuel..be..not determyned nor revertible to the Kyng or his heires.