KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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REVIVOR, WRIT OF

REVERSIONARY

ment of property, at present in the possession or occupation of another. Holthouse.—Rever sionary lease. One to take effect in fttturo. A second lease, to commence after the expira tion of a former lease. Wharton. REVERSIONER. A person who is en titled to an estate in reversion. By an ex tension of its meaning, one who is entitled to any future estate or any property in ex pectancy. REVERT. To revert is to return. Thus, when the owner of an estate in land has granted a smaller estate to another person, on the determination of the latter estate, the land is said to "revert" to the grantor. Sweet. REVERTER. Reversion. A possibili ty of reverter is that species of reversionary interest which exists when the grant is so limited that it may possibly terminate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 63. See FOBMEDON IN THE REVEBTEB. REVEST. To vest again. A seisin is said to revest, where it is acquired a second time by the party out of whom it has been divested. 1 Rop. Husb. & Wife, 353. It is opposed to "divest." The words "revest" and "divest" are also applicable to the mere right or title, as opposed to the pos session. Brown. REVESTIRE. In old European law. To return or resign an investiture, seisin, or possession that has been received; to rein vest; to re-enfeoff. Spelman. REVIEW. A reconsideration; second view or examination; revision ; consideration for purposes of correction. Used especially of the examination of a cause by an appel late court, and of a second investigation of a proposed public road by a jury of viewers. See Weehawken Wharf Co. v. Knickerbocker Coal Co., 25 Misc. Rep. 309, 54 N. Y. Supp 566; State v. Main, 69 Conn. 123, 37 Atl. 80, 36 L. R. A. 623, 61 Am. St. Rep. 30. —Bill of review. In equity practice. A bill, in the nature of a writ of error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a decree made upon a former bill, which decree has been signed and enrolled. Story, Eq. PI. § 403.—Commission of review. In English ecclesiastical law. < A commission formerly sometimes granted, in extraordinary cases, to revise the sentence of the court of delegates, when it was apprehended they had been led in to a material error. 3 Bl. Comm. 67.—Court of review. In England. A court established by 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 56, for the adjudicating upon such matters in bankruptcy as before were within the jurisdiction of the lord chancellor. It was abolished in 1847.—Reviewing taxa tion. The re-taxing or re-examining an attor ney's bill of costs by the master. The courts sometimes order the masters to review their taxation, when, on being applied to for that purpose, it appears that items have been allow ed or disallowed on some erroneous principle, or under some mistaken impression. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 55.

REVILING CHURCH ORDINANCES. An offense against religion punishable in England by fine, and imprisonment 4Steph. Comm. 208. REVISE. To review, re-examine for correction; to go over a thing for the purpose of amending, correcting, rearranging, or oth erwise improving it; as, to revise statutes, or a judgment. Casey v. Harned, 5 Iowa, 12; Vinsant v. Knox, 27 Ark. 272; Falconer v. Robinson, 46 Ala. 34a REVISED STATUTES. A body of stat utes which have been revised, collected, ar ranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole. This is the-Jegal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states, and also of the United States. Such a volume is usually cited as "Rev. Stat," "Rev. St.," or "R. S." REVISING ASSESSORS. In English law. Two officers elected by the burgesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in re vising the parish burgess lists. Wharton. REVISING BARRISTERS. In Eng lish law. Barristers appointed to revise the list of voters for county and borough mem bers of parliament and who hold courts for that purpose throughout the county. St 6 Vict c. 18. —Revising barristers' courts. In English law. Courts held in the autumn throughout the country, to revise the list of voters for county and borough members of parliament REVIVAL. The process, of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has re mained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process to reanimate it. See Brier v. Traders' Nat. Bank, 24 Wash. 695, 64 Pac. 831; Havens v. Sea Shore Land Co., 57 N. J. Eq. 142, 41 Atl. 755. The act of renewing the legal force of a contract or obligation, which had ceased to be sufficient foundation for an action, on ac count of the running of the statute of limi tations, by giving a new promise or acknowl edgment of it. REVIVE. To renew, revivify; to make one's self liable for a debt barred by the statute of limitations by acknowledging it; or for a matrimonial offense, once condoned, by committing another. See Lindsey v. Ly man, 37 Iowa, 207. REVIVOR, BHili OF. In equity prac tice. A bill filed for the purpose of reviving or calling into operation the proceedings in a suit when, from some circumstance, (as the death of the plaintiff,) the suit had abated. REVIVOR, "WRIT OF. In English prac tice. Where it became necessary to revive a