In Scots law, an extract from chancery of the service of an heir to his ancestor.(noun)
To revert (to a person).
To return (to a place).
To return (a person) as heir.
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Use "retour" in a sentence
"Juste retour des choses ici-bas. there being absolutely no such _retour_ for Gustave -- one feels rather inclined, as his countrymen would say, to "conspue" Paul. ["
""Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds."
"Au retour de Sicile, les enfants ont découvert quelques clandestins dans la voiture!"