- Act of turning - The act of returning, or coming back; return. - That which reverts or returns; residue. - The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs,
by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue
of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in
possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or
less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. - Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment;
succession. - A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit
which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death
of a living person. - A return towards some ancestral type or character;
atavism.
- The act of turning toward or downward. - The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the
opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal;
then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as
"immediate inference by privative conception."