reversion

1. (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.Examples: "Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—"; "Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven, Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo— They threw their pens down in divine disgust, The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […] (Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion— ’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion)."; "By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up."countableuncountable

2. (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.countableuncountable

3. (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.countableuncountable

4. (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.Synonyms: backmutationcountableuncountable

5. (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.countableproscribeduncountableusually