Definition of "reversioner" []

• Law A party entitled to receive an estate in reversion. (noun)

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• "Madame de Misery, Baronne de Biache, the Queen's first lady of the chamber, to whom I was made reversioner, was a daughter of M. le Comte de Chemant, and her grandmother was a Montmorency."
• "/2 It is used in a somewhat different sense is describing the relation between a tenant for life or years and a reversioner."
• "Rumour has long since pointed to the Advocates 'Library at Edinburgh as the ultimate reversioner."